Symposium Edited Eugene Heimler (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition Slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. During this century a number of ordinary men and women from all walks of life have stood up against tyrants in various parts of the world. In this book, the author has brought together a number of such people - people who at a point in their lives stood up against dictatorship and often rished their lives and livelihood. The German colonel who becamw aware of what Hitler really stood for; the Rabbi in Sout Africa who could not reconcile with his background and the teaching of Judaism the persecution of negroes; the Algerian Lawyer who had remained true to the Law at a time of lawlessness; the Polish writer, who had to fight on tro fronts, against the Nazis and then against the Communists; the Irisih playwriter, who was caught up in his youth in the fight aganst the British; the the Hungarian Jewish poet who recited his porems in concentration camps. 168 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).