HUSS, Pierre J. The Foe We Face
HUSS, Pierre J. The Foe We Face. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran. 1942. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's deep red cloth lettered in white and black to the spine with the soldier's head from the jacket replicated to upper board. In the original dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean, extremities a trifle pushed, but the binding tight and square, the contents mostly fine with faint offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket neatly cut at all four corners with price of $3.00 to the front flap. The spine panel a little faded, with some small chips and nicks to most corners, edges, and spine tips. Rubbed in places, but a nice example--the typographic dust jacket uncredited.
An interesting and scarce volume, unusual since its author was the first to interview Hitler after his rise to power, in 1935 at Berghof. He interviewed him multiple times in the late 30s, and finally again only a month before Hitler declared war on the United States in December 1941. He depicts Hitler as calm and triumphant in those early years and talks of the unheard and the unseen in Nazi Germany--the dreaded Gestapo. One chapter details Hitler's pinpoint accuracy in shooting snowballs midair, and his control over Mussolini--indeed, when Huss reported of Mussolini's demise in 1943, he pre-empted Hitler's will to kill himself over surrender. The final chapter covers Huss's final meeting with Hitler, apparently now fearful and frenzied. A fascinating contemporary insight into the Third Reich and Hitler's persona. Scarce.
HUSS, Pierre J. The Foe We Face. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran. 1942. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's deep red cloth lettered in white and black to the spine with the soldier's head from the jacket replicated to upper board. In the original dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean, extremities a trifle pushed, but the binding tight and square, the contents mostly fine with faint offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket neatly cut at all four corners with price of $3.00 to the front flap. The spine panel a little faded, with some small chips and nicks to most corners, edges, and spine tips. Rubbed in places, but a nice example--the typographic dust jacket uncredited.
An interesting and scarce volume, unusual since its author was the first to interview Hitler after his rise to power, in 1935 at Berghof. He interviewed him multiple times in the late 30s, and finally again only a month before Hitler declared war on the United States in December 1941. He depicts Hitler as calm and triumphant in those early years and talks of the unheard and the unseen in Nazi Germany--the dreaded Gestapo. One chapter details Hitler's pinpoint accuracy in shooting snowballs midair, and his control over Mussolini--indeed, when Huss reported of Mussolini's demise in 1943, he pre-empted Hitler's will to kill himself over surrender. The final chapter covers Huss's final meeting with Hitler, apparently now fearful and frenzied. A fascinating contemporary insight into the Third Reich and Hitler's persona. Scarce.
HUSS, Pierre J. The Foe We Face. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran. 1942. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's deep red cloth lettered in white and black to the spine with the soldier's head from the jacket replicated to upper board. In the original dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean, extremities a trifle pushed, but the binding tight and square, the contents mostly fine with faint offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket neatly cut at all four corners with price of $3.00 to the front flap. The spine panel a little faded, with some small chips and nicks to most corners, edges, and spine tips. Rubbed in places, but a nice example--the typographic dust jacket uncredited.
An interesting and scarce volume, unusual since its author was the first to interview Hitler after his rise to power, in 1935 at Berghof. He interviewed him multiple times in the late 30s, and finally again only a month before Hitler declared war on the United States in December 1941. He depicts Hitler as calm and triumphant in those early years and talks of the unheard and the unseen in Nazi Germany--the dreaded Gestapo. One chapter details Hitler's pinpoint accuracy in shooting snowballs midair, and his control over Mussolini--indeed, when Huss reported of Mussolini's demise in 1943, he pre-empted Hitler's will to kill himself over surrender. The final chapter covers Huss's final meeting with Hitler, apparently now fearful and frenzied. A fascinating contemporary insight into the Third Reich and Hitler's persona. Scarce.