310 pages.

Signed by Author

First edition

Hard cover with Dust Jacket

Utley was posted to Germany as a Reader's Digest correspondent in 1948. Here she relates her controversial observations of that devastated post-war nation. "An excellent, readable, well-documented account of the cruelties, and of the disasters, to victors and vanquished alike, which resulted from the application of the slightly modified Stalin-White-Morgenthau Plan to conquered Germany after 1945." - Stimely p.61. Joseph Halow, an American court reporter at the Dachau War Crimes Trials, cites this book in his work, Innocent at Dachau.

Average overall wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's name and date pencilled atop front free endpaper. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart.

A sound first edition copy of this important historical account.

Select Bibliography of Revisionist Books p.23.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Germany, History, Morgenthau Plan, Dachau War Crimes Trials, U.S. Military Tribunals, Crimes Against Humanity, Torture, Perjury, Slavery. a powerful and thought-provoking book about the human cost of vengeance. Utley explores the psychological and moral dimensions of revenge, and argues that it ultimately leads to more harm than good. Her insights are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1949

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