Eric Caren Collection (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 96pp. First Edition. Spine ends very lightly bumped, else Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket (light edge wear). ISBN 0-7858-1341-1. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. TSB-373 Quantity Available: 1. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52565.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. As new condition heavy oversized (Elephant Folio, 15 inches tall) textured black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Translated Texts; Credits and Permissions. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A High Ridge Country Club gift bookplate celebrating 20/20, its 20th anniversary and The Millennium, is neatly affixed to the center of the blank first free front endpaper and dated December 31, 1999. "Follow the events of the war through this international newspaper collection." - excerpt from the rear outer jacket. "Chronicled in World War II Extra are the original newspapers from around the world that tell the story of this global conflict. Reporting begins with the announcement of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 which, ironically Germany was the first to sign. Events leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of the war are covered in detail. The headlines and news photographs herein reveal, with shocking immediacy, the horror that is war. Among the many rare publications of the Caren Archives, Inc, which is the source of this collection is a paper from the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1933. It contains a chilling speech to the delegates by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, defending the National Socialist state for its "positive repercussions on the economic and political development of the German nation" and bemoaning the "lack of good will on the part of world public opinion." Reading his "real and practical solution to the Jewish problem" is an unforgettable, first hand look into the twisted psyche of the Nazi state. Unique selections such as this make this volume an essential source of material that might take years of scholarly research to uncover or is otherwise unobtainable. Patriotic British and American troop papers such as Union Jack, Yank, The Sniper, The Guinea American, Grapevine, and The Stars and Stripes, kept the soldiers informed and entertained with news, baseball scores, comics, and pin-ups. More crudely printed were the French resistance papers such as Liberation and La France en Armes, while the German troops read Panzer Voran and Die Wehrmacht, as well as SS papers such as Germaneren and Das Schwarze Korps, all of which were more warlike with very few diversions. Also included are Japanese propaganda papers printed in English, German occupation papers, American/Japanese interment camp papers, fascinating prisoner of war editions that German and American prisoners were allowed to publish in their respective languages at the camps, reports of bomb damage at Buckingham Palace, the bombing of Pearl Harbor at the source on the day it happened by the Honolulu Star Bulletin Extra, the Tripoli Times (North Africa's first English daily), Italian papers showing the battered corpse of Mussolini, and on to the war's end, announcements of surrender and peace, and the war crimes trials. The newspapers being our main link to the events of the war, they also encouraged the war efforts at home to save scrap and ration materials. As the entire world lived the nightmare that was World War II, much of the news was only what the powers that be wanted us to hear. Propaganda proliferated on all fronts to demoralize and trick opponents. Full disclosure would have been a breach of security and a risk to each side's military operations. The "loose lips sink ships" mentality was seriously respected by both journalists and the citizenry. Papers reporting the world events are presented from Alaska to Berlin and from Tokyo to the French Algiers, creating a volume that acts as a time machine, transporting us back to the victories and atrocities of the war that saved the world's freedom." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.