A Mother Fights Hitler
Irmgard Litten
Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1942
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Third impression, published in 1942, A Mother Fights Hitler. Grey cloth boards with red lettering on spine in very good condition. Pages are clean, no marks or foxing, slightly tanned. Binding is tight. Dust-jacket has some tanning and bumped edges. This book may incur some shelf wear. All proceeds go to Amnesty International. Seller Inventory # ABEO6B25Y22
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Title: A Mother Fights Hitler
Publisher: George Allen and Unwin Ltd
Publication Date: 1942
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 3rd Edition
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A Mother Fights Hitler
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Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Good. A Mother Fights Hitler is not a title that leaves much room for ambiguity. It does not hint, suggest, or gently allude. It simply states its case, and in doing so places itself firmly in that stark, urgent category of books written when events were still unfolding and understatement had quietly left the room. Written by Irmgard Litten and published in 1940 by George Allen & Unwin, this is a work born of real experience rather than distant observation. It tells the story of a mother?s campaign against the machinery of the Nazi regime following the persecution and death of her son, the lawyer Hans Litten, who had famously confronted Hitler in court before becoming one of the regime?s early victims. There is an immediacy to the book that later histories can never quite reproduce. This is not the Second World War explained with the benefit of hindsight; it is the war?as far as it could be understood at the time?felt personally, argued passionately, and recorded with the urgency of someone who has no interest in abstraction. The tone is direct, purposeful, and entirely free of the diplomatic distance that later decades would develop. And yet, there is a certain quiet irony in its survival as a physical object. This good copy, as offered by Crappy Old Books, has outlasted the regime it describes, the conflict it belongs to, and the moment of crisis that gave it life. What was once a contemporary warning now sits as a historical witness, its pages carrying both the immediacy of 1940 and the perspective of everything that followed. It is not a light read, nor was it intended to be. But it is a powerful one: a document of resistance, loss, and determination, written at a time when the outcome was far from certain. For collectors of wartime history, anti-Nazi literature, personal narratives of the Second World War, or books that remind us how recent and how real these events once were, this is a compelling and quietly formidable volume. Seller Inventory # 6327
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A Mother Fights Hitler
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Seller: Amnesty Bookshop, Malvern, Great Malvern, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of a classic account of German opposition to Nazism, complete with original dust jacket. 3rd impression (1942). Seller Inventory # 14020
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A Mother Fights Hitler. With a Foreword by His Grace The Archbishop of York. And an Introduction by W Arnold-Forster.
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Seller: Hartmut Diekmann, Berlin, Germany
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Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Gut. 3. Auflage. Third Impression in dustwrapper that states second impression on spine. 285pp. Portrait Frontis, Book and pages very good, Wrapper slightly browned, little worn at the upper side. Inside a postcard from the Memotial KZ Dachau, dated 16.7.82 signed Barbara. Seller Inventory # 000976
A Mother Fights Hitler. With a Foreword by His Grace The Archbishop of York. And an Introduction by W Arnold-Forster.
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Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
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Third Impression in dustwrapper that states second impression on spine. 285pp. Portrait Frontis. Board extremities very slightly bumped. Pages slightly age browned. Wrapper browned, slightly worn at extremities, lower panel lightly soiled o/w VG+/VG. Seller Inventory # 61015
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A Mother Fights Hitler
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Seller: Westmoor Books, Bedale, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine firs English Edition, ttranslated by Bernard Miall, in a Near Fine unclipped DJ, some offsetting to eps but generally a lovely copy of a scarce first edition. Seller Inventory # 007985
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