WEAVER, Denis. On Hitler's Doorstep
WEAVER, Denis. On Hitler's Doorstep. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1942. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the original dust jacket. With four maps. A very good example, the cloth bright, gently bumped in places, but the binding tight and square. Some light spots to the textblock edges with a small handful of spots within, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (8/6 net), a trifle faded at spine, some light nicks and rubbing to corners and spine tips, but a nice example and uncommon as such.
A rather scarce volume of war reportage from Denis Weaver, who seemingly put out only a small handful of such works. He served as a reporter for the News Chronicle and was sent to Sweden, ‘on Hitler’s doorstep’, to report on Allied, Axis and neutral sentiments after the failure of Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa. The reportage is entirely readable to the modern reader and Weaver’s closing statement encapsulates Russia since Peter the Great: “a community of men and women with endless territory, unlimited resources and abounding faith and courage, there can be only one ultimate outcome: Russia is unconquerable”.
WEAVER, Denis. On Hitler's Doorstep. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1942. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the original dust jacket. With four maps. A very good example, the cloth bright, gently bumped in places, but the binding tight and square. Some light spots to the textblock edges with a small handful of spots within, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (8/6 net), a trifle faded at spine, some light nicks and rubbing to corners and spine tips, but a nice example and uncommon as such.
A rather scarce volume of war reportage from Denis Weaver, who seemingly put out only a small handful of such works. He served as a reporter for the News Chronicle and was sent to Sweden, ‘on Hitler’s doorstep’, to report on Allied, Axis and neutral sentiments after the failure of Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa. The reportage is entirely readable to the modern reader and Weaver’s closing statement encapsulates Russia since Peter the Great: “a community of men and women with endless territory, unlimited resources and abounding faith and courage, there can be only one ultimate outcome: Russia is unconquerable”.
WEAVER, Denis. On Hitler's Doorstep. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1942. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the original dust jacket. With four maps. A very good example, the cloth bright, gently bumped in places, but the binding tight and square. Some light spots to the textblock edges with a small handful of spots within, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (8/6 net), a trifle faded at spine, some light nicks and rubbing to corners and spine tips, but a nice example and uncommon as such.
A rather scarce volume of war reportage from Denis Weaver, who seemingly put out only a small handful of such works. He served as a reporter for the News Chronicle and was sent to Sweden, ‘on Hitler’s doorstep’, to report on Allied, Axis and neutral sentiments after the failure of Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa. The reportage is entirely readable to the modern reader and Weaver’s closing statement encapsulates Russia since Peter the Great: “a community of men and women with endless territory, unlimited resources and abounding faith and courage, there can be only one ultimate outcome: Russia is unconquerable”.