Germany: Jekyll and Hyde

Sebastian Haffner

Published by Secker and Warburg, London, 1940

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing, Ex-library. No jacket. Original yellow cloth binding with brown lettering on spine. Binding is in good condition, with some dirt and handling marks on boards. Interior pages are somewhat tanned but unmarked. The Congregational Library of Boston has a pasted catalog number on the spine, a stamp on the title page, and due date slip and card pocket on rear pastedown and endpaper. The book was a timely exploration of Germany under Nazi leadership written by Raimund Pretzel (1907-1999) under the pseudonym Sebasitan Haffner. Haffner was a German journalist and historian who became a political exile and émigré to England in the late 1930s. The book is in part a psychological examination of the Reich, and of German sentiment about Nazism from its leadership, to its supporters, and its opponents. It contains a historical rationale for the rise of Nazism from the Prussian Reich of the 19th century, and also a chapter of dismantling the Reich and eradicating a Nazi mentality in Germany. Hardcover, good condition, 327 pages, 12mo.

Seller Inventory # 1660824

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Germany: Jekyll and Hyde
• Publisher: Secker and Warburg, London
• Publication Date: 1940
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • WWII