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REITLINGER, GERALD: : THE SS: ALIBI OF A NATION 1922-1945

LONDON.ARMS & ARMOUR PRESS,1985.

ISBN 0853681872.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,rpt.[Originally published (UK) 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,by WILLIAM HEINEMANN,1956.Out-of-print for years,then republished (UK)Arms & Armour Press,1981 with a foreword by Martin Gilbert.That issue was reprinted 1984 and then again in 1985,twice.This example is that issue.] VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,black background with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - though some inevitable,but light, superficial scoring/indentation marks to both panels of dw/dj - nothing excessive though and barely affecting the boards beneath.Top edges slightly dust-soiled with light,sporadic spotting/marking and light ageing,fore-edges also lightly aged and minimally,sporadically foxed/spotted but overall,generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright and generally clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain white endpapers with the merest hint of off-setting from dw/djs' inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,rpt,ix-xipp+2-502pp [paginated] includes glossary of abbreviations with acknowledgements to it's verso,commissioned ranks of Waffen SS and Army equivalents,16 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in one block,between pp224/5,a 6pp bibliography,20pp Dramatis Personae,3 b/w maps (2 of which are double-paged),and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,foreword by Martin Gilbert,contents list/table,a dedication,title separator page,and 10pp blanks at rear. Based almost entirely on original German documents,including the captured files of the SS leadership,'The SS: Alibi of a Nation' gives a final account of the Nazi Praetorian Guard.With steadily mounting tension,the story moves from the origins of the SS before 1923 to its supremacy,twenty years later,as the most appalling instrument of political and military terror known to history. The author sees the SS not as an historical accident,but as a tyrannical expression of bureaucracy in politics.It is with the administration and internal rivalries of the Nazi state that the book is mainly concerned: how the whole system worked out in peace,and above all in war. Amongst other items,the book includes a study of the field divisions of the SS,of the Gestapo and its peculiar limitations, and of the rival agencies of the German Military Intelligence.Also discussed is the organization of the concentration camps and death camps,and the greatest racial massacre in history. Gerald Reitlinger (famous as the author of 'The Final Solution') brought the objective eye of the historian to bear on this emotive subject and produced a book that is not only factual and absorbing but also a valid and vital contribution to the study of the Second World War.The 'SS: Alibi of a Nation' is the classic work on the history of the SS,and is now available after many years out-of-print (then 1981/85). Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. q52.NAVAL/MILITARY.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,rpt. ISBN 0853681872.History of SS_1922-1945. Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei_Schutzstaffel_History_Heinrich Himmler.SS_Nuremberg Trials.SS_Armed_ General_Honorary.The Jewish Problem_ Solution.German Concentration camps_ euthanasia programmes.Books new,used, signed,rare.

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