REITLINGER, Gerald. The Final Solution
REITLINGER, Gerald. The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe 1939-1945. London: Vallentine Marshall. 1953. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. Presumably an association copy, with the bookplate of Ralph M. Chait to the front endpaper. Both the author and Chait were distinguished experts in the field of Chinese porcelain and art. It's highly probable the pair met, and so this copy may well have been gifted to Chait. A near fine copy, the cloth clean with one or two minor bumps, the binding tight and square, a little pulled at the gutter to title page. The contents, other than the aforementioned book plate, fine. The dust jacket unclipped (30s net) with some light bumps and tiny nicks to the corners and spine tips, the spine panel a trifle darkened. A sharp copy overall.
The first complete overview of the National Socialist mass murder of the European Jews, scarce and desirable thus. Reitlinger's thorough account of Jewish persecution was extremely popular on publication. It rejected Soviet estimates that 4 million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz, instead suggesting the number was closer to 900,000. Today, that number is considered to be around 1.1 million. The volume itself is harrowing; beginning with forced emigration, the Nuremberg Laws and Broken Glass, to the ghettoes, to the search for 'the final solution'; considerations of Operation Madagascar, and on, inevitably, to the gas chambers and its horrific economy. The second part of the book considers the 'Final Solution' in action, not only in Germany, but in occupied territory across Europe, written always with great authority and with a focus on statistics.
REITLINGER, Gerald. The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe 1939-1945. London: Vallentine Marshall. 1953. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. Presumably an association copy, with the bookplate of Ralph M. Chait to the front endpaper. Both the author and Chait were distinguished experts in the field of Chinese porcelain and art. It's highly probable the pair met, and so this copy may well have been gifted to Chait. A near fine copy, the cloth clean with one or two minor bumps, the binding tight and square, a little pulled at the gutter to title page. The contents, other than the aforementioned book plate, fine. The dust jacket unclipped (30s net) with some light bumps and tiny nicks to the corners and spine tips, the spine panel a trifle darkened. A sharp copy overall.
The first complete overview of the National Socialist mass murder of the European Jews, scarce and desirable thus. Reitlinger's thorough account of Jewish persecution was extremely popular on publication. It rejected Soviet estimates that 4 million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz, instead suggesting the number was closer to 900,000. Today, that number is considered to be around 1.1 million. The volume itself is harrowing; beginning with forced emigration, the Nuremberg Laws and Broken Glass, to the ghettoes, to the search for 'the final solution'; considerations of Operation Madagascar, and on, inevitably, to the gas chambers and its horrific economy. The second part of the book considers the 'Final Solution' in action, not only in Germany, but in occupied territory across Europe, written always with great authority and with a focus on statistics.
REITLINGER, Gerald. The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe 1939-1945. London: Vallentine Marshall. 1953. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. Presumably an association copy, with the bookplate of Ralph M. Chait to the front endpaper. Both the author and Chait were distinguished experts in the field of Chinese porcelain and art. It's highly probable the pair met, and so this copy may well have been gifted to Chait. A near fine copy, the cloth clean with one or two minor bumps, the binding tight and square, a little pulled at the gutter to title page. The contents, other than the aforementioned book plate, fine. The dust jacket unclipped (30s net) with some light bumps and tiny nicks to the corners and spine tips, the spine panel a trifle darkened. A sharp copy overall.
The first complete overview of the National Socialist mass murder of the European Jews, scarce and desirable thus. Reitlinger's thorough account of Jewish persecution was extremely popular on publication. It rejected Soviet estimates that 4 million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz, instead suggesting the number was closer to 900,000. Today, that number is considered to be around 1.1 million. The volume itself is harrowing; beginning with forced emigration, the Nuremberg Laws and Broken Glass, to the ghettoes, to the search for 'the final solution'; considerations of Operation Madagascar, and on, inevitably, to the gas chambers and its horrific economy. The second part of the book considers the 'Final Solution' in action, not only in Germany, but in occupied territory across Europe, written always with great authority and with a focus on statistics.