Reventlow Count Ernst (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Dampstaining to the pages and rear board. Stains to the page edges. Reading copy only. Translated from the German with a preface by George Chatterton-Hill. Not a horror novel, but a condemnation of Great Britain by a future Nazi politician.; 225 pages.

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Color Embossed Cover Illustration. (illustrator). First American Edition. 225 Pp. Gray Cloth Illustrated In Red And Black. First English Language Printing. A Summary Of British-German Relations Over The Centuries, And A Defense Of German Foreign Policy, Blaming The Once Erotically Pre-Occupied Edward Vii For English Advantage In Colonial Imperialism To Germany's Disadvantage; Aristocratic Militaristic Whining, However Fact Based, Drawing Grounds For War In Being Unfairly Disadvantaged In Taking Unfair Advantage Of The Rest Of The World. Lightly Used, Hinges Tight, No Fraying, Covers Still Somewhat Worn. Previous Owner's Name On Front Pastedown, With "War Service Library" Bookplate Illustrating A Soldier In Uniform Smiling While Holding A Stack Of Books Several Feet High, And An Unmarked Diagonal Strip Of Brown Paper At Corner Of Rear Pastedown, Probably A Charge-Card Holder.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Annotations and underlining in pencil throughout text. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging across boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First edition in English. [6], 79pp, [1]. With a folding, linen-backed, map. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Rubbed, lightly marked, loss to head and foot of dulled spine, coloured pencil shelf-marks to upper wrapper. Scattered spotting, occasional pencilled highlights/annotations. The sole edition in English of German naval officer and journalist Count Ernst Zu Reventlow's (1869-1943) vehemently anti-British monograph, published at the height of the First World War, analysing the political importance of India for the German Empire. Reventlow, an ardent nationalist, ferociously condemns the 'British misgovernment' of India and the 'unworthy and base' treatment of the Indian people. Nevertheless, he makes clear that it would be inappropriate for the German Empire to intervene directly in order to 'free India from the English yoke', rather, he suggests, that Indian people must attain emancipation themselves. Reventlow's motives are however not altruistic; he seeks Indian independence only in the context of undermining the British Empire, 'the deadly enemy of Germany both in the present and the future'. He concludes with a somewhat prescient statement: 'A gradual or immediate independence of India can take place in different ways and in different manners, either during the war, during the coming peace, or by means of a later war. It is not the purpose of this work to discuss such possibilities. In any case, it is undoubtedly the duty of Germany to strengthen and support the Indian nation and, at the same time, to weaken the British power whatever and wherever it may be'. In his prefatory remarks, Director of Central Intelligence, C. R. Cleveland states that: 'I am bringing out this translation in the hope that it may be useful to officials in India who have to deal with German schemes and propaganda'. This is followed by a succinct account of Reventlow: 'I believe Reventlow to be an enthusiastic pan-German, fanatical in his pride in Germany and the German people. He looks on the German race as by far the best in Europe'; a perceptive observation, as Reventlow would later be a zealous member of the Nazi party. The pamphlet, 'cleverly got up in a form almost exactly similar to the original German book', was printed at the Monotype Press, Simla, at the behest of the Government of India. Marked 'secret' to the upper wrapper, the publication was, according to the colophon, limited to a run of just eighty copies; no doubt in part accounting for the paucity of surviving examples. OCLC records copies at just two locations (BL and South Asia Union Catalogue). Size: 8vo.