Walter Kempowski Charlotte Collins (7 results)

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Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st UK Edition. First U.K. edition, hardcover, has a tiny lean to the binding, and very slight bumps to spine ends and upper cover corners, otherwise a solid, tight, clean VG+ copy in a like dust jacket, which has very slight bumps to spine ends and corners, and is wrapped in a protective Mylar cover.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 192 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition in English. First impression of the first edition in English. Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine and bottom corner of front board slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £14.99. The dustwrapper is complete, with the top and tail of the spine just slightly creased. Lower corner of front panel of dustwrapper slightly rubbed. No chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***225mm x140mm. 186 pages. ***'It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia - where the Nazi legacy lives on in buildings and fortifications - to write about the route for a car rally. It's a plum job, but his interest is piqued by a personal connection. He was born here, among the refugees fleeing the advancing Russians in 1945. ***"Homeland" is a nuanced work from one of the great modern European storytellers, in which an everyday German comes face to face with his painful family history, and devastating questions about ordinary Germans' complicity in the war.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Walter Kempowski (29 April 1929 - 5 October 2007) was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental Echolot ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War. In the immediate postwar period, Kempowski worked for the U.S. Army in Wiesbaden, in the American zone of Allied-occupied Germany. In March 1948, during a visit to his home city of Rostock, in the Soviet zone, in what would later become communist East Germany, he was arrested by Soviet authorities and accused of spying for the U.S. Convicted by a Soviet military tribunal and sentenced to 25 years, he served eight years in a prison in Bautzen, and was released in 1956.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the first edition in English, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice bright collectable condition. Uncommon in first impression. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.