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ROHM, ERNST - [Introduction by Eleanor Hancock.]: : The Memoirs of Ernst Rohn. [Translated by Geoffrey Brooks.]

LONDON.FRONTLINE BOOKS/an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd.,BARNSLEY,S.Yorks,2012.

ISBN 9781848325999.

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st English translation,1st edn.[The full German-language edition of these memoirs,'Rohm: Die Geschichte eines Hochverraters',was published in Munich in 1928 by Franz Eher Verlag.This edition published by Frontline Books,London,has been abridged from the original text and is the first English-language translation,by Geoffrey Brooks.] MINT/MINT.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,contemporary sepia photograpic portrait of subject illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with white-lettered title, author/subject name,black-lettered Introduction author credit; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+ lettered title+author name as front, and publisher's black-lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,black background with gold coloured prose extract/quotation - Ernst Rohm and white-lettered prose extract from Introduction(?).Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp, clean without foxing/spotting or other blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,harp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj, 1st edn,x-xipp+2-244pp [paginated] includes Introduction,subject's Foreword with (historical?) Notes to Foreword to reverse of last page of same,19 chapters and an Afterword, 8pp contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs in 1 block,between pp116/17,an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with subject's contemporary b/w portrait photograph to its reverse,contents list/table with blank reverse,and an Illustrations list/table with Notes on Translation to its reverse.              Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation [for a book of its 10-year+ age.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. Abridged from German-language,original edition of Rohm's memoirs,focusing on material covering the political aspects of Rohm's career from the end of the First World War and his role  in the development of National Socialism.Material covering his early life,military career and service at the front has been contracted and is presented in the Foreword to this edition.        Ernst Röhm was one of the key architects behind the rise of the Nazi Party.From 1919 until 1923, following the defeat of Germany in the First World War,Röhm served in the Freikorps and then NSDAP – the Nazi Party.He served as the party’s patron, promoter and watchdog,and helped found the SA,the thuggish workforce behind Nazi political activity leading up to 1933.It has been stated that the rise to power of both Hitler and the Nazi Party would not have happened without Röhm’s organizational skill, authority and influence.He took part in the Beer hall putsch in 1923,but was sufficiently disillusioned by 1925 with the prospects for Nazism that he stood for the Reichtag instead.    Once described as 'the man who invented Hitler',Rohm was one of the key figures of the fledgling Nazi Party. Commander of the notorious 'Stormtroopers',the fanatical brown-shirted mobsters who assisted Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s; and once a close ally of Hitler,Rohm was later brutally killed by the SS during the Night of the Long Knives.                        Röhm had written and published his memoirs in 1928 – entitled it with heavy irony 'A Traitor’s Story' – referring proudly to his conviction for high treason against the Republic as a result of the 1923 Putsch,the year he both  working for the Nazis and left to serve in the Bolivian army for two years.On his return in 1930 he was made chief of staff of the Nazi Sturmabteilungen (SA),the stormtroopers who played a vital role in the electioneering and violence of the party's rise to,and seizure of,power.On 30 June 1934,after months of tension about the SA's ongoing role in the regime once power had been secured,Hitler and the party leadership moved against the SA.Rohm and other SA leaders were arrested and executed on Hitler's orders. Rohm's private archive was destroyed in the aftermath of his murder on 1 July 1934,and - apart from this autobiography - only a few scattered personal papers remain.The diaries, letters and memoranda that he drew on in writing this book no longer exist.This makes the autobiography even more significant as a source to understand the life and views of this important Nazi leader. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - 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.  ** 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! 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UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st English translation,1st edn.
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