Fallen Bastions

Heavy water damage to lower half of rear board. Internally good. Previous owner's name and bookseller's label on front board. Dust-jacket with fading and foxing and some staining. A couple of bookseller's labels over price on dust-jacket spine and front panel. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; October 1940 reprint of a title first published in February 1939. 8th impression (second Cheap Edition). 519, [1 (blank)]. 2 full page maps. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 134mm. "The world-famous eye-witness account of the rape of Austria and Czechoslovakia by Hitler" - from front panel of dust-jacket. G. E. R. Gedye was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Austria and Czechoslovakia. With quotes from reviews on both flaps and on rear panel of dust-jacket. "It tells, in detail so vivid that it fascinates while it revolts the reader, the whole hideous story of how Fascism murdered democracy in Austria and Czechoslovakia, and of how Toryism and plutocracy in this country have for years worked hand in glove with the assassins of civilisation [. . .]" - K. Zilliacus (Tribune), quoted on rear panel of dust-jacket.…