Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945. by Vassiltchikov, Marie

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Knopf. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1987. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. 0394556240 . Rear panel of jacket shows light soiling. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 324 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1987. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 324 pp. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. xv, 324 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Knopf, 1987-03-12. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Dust jacket in good condition - with normal shelf wear and some rips and tears around the edges. The back of the dust jacket has a tear about one inch in the lower right corner. Tight binding. Clean unmarked text. No highlighting or markings. We ship daily.

Knopf, 1987-03-12. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Slight wear at top front edge of board and dust jacket. Overall quite nice. 324 pp.

Knopf. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1987. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 0394556240 . Born of aristocratic Russian parents, Vassiltchikov was 24 when, her family scattered, she fled, penniless, from Lithuania to Berlin. Taking a job with the German Foreign Ministry, this emigree worked closely with underground resisters who launched an abortive plot to kill Hitler. Her secret wartime diary, written in fluent English, is a remarkable document alive with history, passion and truth. Calmly and unflinchingly, she records the moral, physical and political atrocities that unfolded around her. The reader experiences the Allied saturation bombing of Berlin from a German point of view (it only steeled the nation's morale). Her friends included active anti-Nazis as well as SS officers and members of Germany's social elite, many of whom, according to the author, loathed Hitler but were paralyzed by their obedience to authority and fear of reprisals. Transferred to Vienna as a… Read More