Lest We Regret

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1943). First Edition. Hardcover. 15mm tear at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; [1-4] 8-337 [1 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spinePage dimensions: 199 x 130mm. "Book Production War Economy Standard." "With this book Douglas Reed concludes the task he set himself, seven years ago, when he began to write 'Insanity Fair.' That book (he says) was 'an urgent warning of the imminent outbreak of war and of the way to avert it'. This one is 'an urgent warning of the imminent outbreak of peace, and of the war to preserve it'." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Author's Note: Part One - Great Argument : To Friends and Foes; 'Something Constructive!'; Part Two - Freedom Lost! : God's Englishman; Where England Stood; Where England Stands; Part Three - Freedom Regained ? : First Things First; The Choice of Enemies; Whodunit?; The Re-education of England; Four English Freedoms; Part Four - Battle in England : In Civvy Street; When the Boys Come Home; When the Girls Come Home; Snap!; Peace, the Graveyard; The Example of France; The House that Jerry Built; Escape!; The Example of Germany; 'All Nazis and Quislings'; The Breed!; A Tale of Three Mothers; The Chldren of Israel; On Holding Our Own; Social Insecurity; Nineteen-Sixty Corner; Kind-Friends, Adieu! : The Summing-up; Footnote. .