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Farrar, Straus, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Fair. Farrar, Straus, 1948 hardcover. Text is clean, binding tight. Minor edgewear. DJ is poor, missing a corner.

Greenwood Press, 1948-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

Farrar, Straus, 1948-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Hardcover, First Edition 1948 Farrar, Straus 212 pages. Very Good, in a Good+ DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear and rubbing to black paper boards with white titles - corners lightly bumped. Moderate shelf/edge wear, soiling, creasing and chipping to original unclipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Written during the winter of 1943-44, Mussolini tells his story up to the time he held the position of ruler of German-held northern Italy. He tells in detail the story of his arrest by the Badoglio forces and subsequent imprisonment, as well as (his version of) his rescue by German paratroopers led by Otto Skorzeny. The Gran Sasso raid was the rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini by German Fallschirmjäger led by Major Harald Mors and Waffen-SS commandos (notably Otto Skorzeny) in September 1943, during World War II. The airborne operation was personally… Read More

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. Used - Very Good. 1948. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1948. 8vo, 212 pp, VG in edgeworn & chipped dj. (Subject: Italy.)

New York: Farrar Straus and Company, 1948. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: mild shelf wear, mild toning. text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: small closed tears, edge wear, NOT clipped ($3.00). 8vo 212pp. from front flap: "It is seldom that a tyrant lives to tell, or wants to tell, of the fall of the empire he has created. Yet that is what Mussolini does in this unique account of the last days of fascist Italy and of the last period of his own life. This book is not unbiased historical fact. It is Mussolini's apologia, his attempt to prolong the Duce myth, his last desperate bid to the Italian people for reinstatement." #01508.

New York: Farrar, Straus, 1948. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. good, fair. 22 cm, 212, map, footnotes, appendix, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Preface by Max Ascoli.