Deemed Suspect A Wartime Blunder by Koch, Eric - 1980

Methuen, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. In the spring of 1940, Eric Koch was a law student in London. By autumn, he was being held behind barbed wire in Quebec. Koch was arrested as an enemy alien by the British government and sent to a prison camp in Canada; but he and hundreds of other "dangerous Nazi" prisoners were really refugees--most of them young and Jewish, themselves fleeing from Hitler. In this book Koch recounts the struggles and joys of his Canadian internment, the relief at being spared the horrors of Nazi-occupied Europe, the bitter irony of being confined as a German enemy. Written with a rare blend of honesty, humour and warmth, Deemed Suspect vividly recreates life in Canada's prison camps during World War Two.

Toronto: Metheun, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First printing. Hardcover. xv+ 272 pp. Illustrated Fine in very good dust jacket. In the spring of 1940 when Nazi forces had swept through Europe and were poised to strike at England's shores, the British government ordered the internment of all enemy aliens, including those who had just escaped from Hitler's grip, and prepared to deport them to Canada. They were put aboard prison ships and arried in Quebec City in the summer of 1940. The Canadians were perpared to receive dangerous prisons of war but instead got a motley crew of teenaged students, rabbis and priests. The author, himself one of the detainees, provides a colorful account of life in the various Canadian internment camps and the struggles by inmates and a group of dedicated Canadians on the outside to help them gain freedom.

Methuen, Toronto, 1980, Very Good Hardcover / Very Good Dustjacket, 272 pages, 6.25" x 9.25", bookplate on fep, edgewear on dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight.

Toronto: Methuen, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket, xv + 272 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; very gently used ex-library copy with clear tape residue on both covers, gilt lettering on front cover and spine very bright and clear, rubber stamps to top and bottom edges, two more rubber stamps inside, both front and back free endpapers (presumably with card pocket) removed, but tight in binding, gentle bumps to spine ends but hardly a hint of shelf wear, "Dunera" in large red felt tip ink capital letters in upper margins of four consecutive pages, text pages otherwise very clean and unmarked, fresh and white; DJ spine faded, barely visible ghost of spine label, ever so gently bumped but no chips or tears, otherwise fresh, clean and bright.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good ++.

Toronto: Methuen and Company, 1980. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xv) 271 pp. Brown boards decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The Contents are: Preface; Introduction; Panic; Internment; The Canadian Connection; The Prison Ships; The Enemy Paratroopers Arrive; You'll Get Used to It; Military Government; Sherbrooke; The Camp Experience; The Curtain Rises; The New Status; and The Final Phase; followed by Epilogue and Appendices..

Methuen, 1980. Hardcover. VG+. Boards sli/NF.. 9x6x1. On the Canadian internment of anti-Nazi Europeans. The author himself was an internee. B+W photos.

Methuen, 1980 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear to brown cloth hardcover and dust jacket. Owner stamp on front end paper. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. xv, 272 pp. .

Methuen, 1980 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear to brown cloth hardcoverr. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. xv, 272 pp. .

Toronto: Methuen [0-458-94490-4] [1980]. (Trade paperback) 272pp. Good to very good. Photographs, illustrations, map, appendices. Some creases on spine. Locale: Austria; Canada. (Military--Canada, Concentration Camps--Canada, Internment, Military--Canada, Prisoners of War--Canada, World War 2).

Methuen, 1980. Hardcover. Good.