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Published by So...pretty much like kids during any other... A gripping portrait of life in wartime Berlin and a vividly theatrical study of how paranoia can warp a society gripped by the fear of the night-time knock on the door.

Otto Quangel is ultimately executed while his wife Anna dies in prison during a bombing raid. 568 pages. | Contact this seller Condition: Fine. Spine and rear and front panels of dustwrapper bright. book. | Contact this seller First English edition., London, 2009.

It is both a dark, fast-paced wartime thriller and a chilling portrayal of a paranoid, brutal society, where the smallest action can have fatal consequences, and love has to survive against the cruellest of odds.

Then the Quangels receive the devastating news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France.

1st Edition. Despite their failure, Fallada protrays the Quangels as moral heroes.

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When the petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen become involved, blackmail, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, gradually tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks. Orlando Booksellers Penguin.

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***'Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. ***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.

First UK Edition. To see what your friends thought of this book, Time Travel with These 15 YA Historical Fiction Novels. First UK Edition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Uncommon now in first printing. The book was turned into a movie in 2016, starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson. Pages clean.

First Edition. Hans Fallada:Alone in Berlin, Penguin Books (German title: Jeder stirbt für sich allein, 1947). There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Hardcover. Fallada died in 1947 in Berlin. 8. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ***Third impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in nice, bright condition. But the writer was by now addicted to alcohol and morphine and initially refused to undertake the project. Nice copy in a worn dust jacket.

***First impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in nice, bright condition. Hans Fallada became known for his novels Kleiner Mann — was nun?, Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst and Der eiserne Gustav. ***Shocked out of his quiet existence, the usually taciturn factory foreman Otto is provoked into an action that will endanger his life. But this story of unsung citizens who fight Hitler armed with postcards also succeeded due to its nuanced and complex characters. Hardcover. If Otto and Anna are caught, they will be executed for treason. Seller Inventory # 140565. Lower corners slightly bumped. Published by Hardcover. In unclipped dust jacket. Penguin Classics [an imprint of Penguin Books], London, 2009.

At a time when even listening to foreign radio stations could be punished, writing and disseminating such messages was a huge risk. Then the Quangels receive the devastating news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France.

But that doesn’t mean that we are alone," said Otto in the novel.

Seller Inventory # 49DDGXHXHZXZ. Lower corners slightly bumped. He had been an internal exile who survived the Nazi-era by writing romance novels and had been unable to articulate resistance. With his wife's help, he begins to drop hundreds of anonymous postcards attacking Hitler in buildings all over the city. Alone in Berlin (Slipcase Edition) (A FIRST PRINTING IN DUSTWRAPPER IN SLIPCASE). First English edition., London, 2009. ***Hans Fallada's gripping and haunting novel was first published in German in 1947.

In the house at 55 Jablonski Strasse, the various occupants are all trying to live under Nazi rule in their own different ways: the nervous Frau Rosenthal, the bullying Hitler-loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm, and the unassuming working-class couple Otto and Anna Quangel. "1" on the publisher's copyright page. (2009), From: Remainder mark bottom edge, else fine in dustwrapper.

Edn. No inscriptions. Born in 1893 in Greifswald, north-east Germany, as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen-name from a Brothers Grimm fairytale. Condition: Fine. Seller Inventory # 6944x. Mr. and Mrs. Quangel  distributed more than 200 such protest postcards in Berlin in 1940 following the death of their son at the front. Hardcover. Hardcover. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.

More information about this seller 100 German Must-Reads Hans Fallada: 'Alone in Berlin' Many decades after it was first published, Fallada's novel has become an international bestseller that has been translated into over 30 languages.

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It was only when their only child was killed fighting for the German army that they began to doubt the regime. With his wife's help, he begins to drop hundreds of anonymous postcards attacking Hitler in buildings all over the city. (13.03.2017). No tears.

In a very good unclipped dust wrapper with some light staining to the rear panel. Condition: Very Good. ***'The greatest book ever written about the German resistance to the Nazis' [Primo Levi] ***Alone in Berlin is one of the most extraordinary and compelling noels ever written about World War II. Michael Hofmann's powerful new translation brings this extraordinary masterpiece to English readers for the very first time.' No inscriptions. Alone in Berlin book. ***'Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear.

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"But we do not want to end this book with death, it is dedicated to life, to the invincible life that triumphs again and again over shame and tears, over misery and death.". UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING.NEAR FINE HARDBACK IN NEAR FINE DUSTWRAPPER IN A SLIPCASE WITH A FEW SPLIT EDGES.A MASSIVE BOOK REQUIRING EXTRA POSTAGE FOR NON UK ADDRESS. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ***As the couple's silent campaign escalates, the cards come to the attention of the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich, and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between them. If Otto and Anna are caught, they will be executed for treason. | Contact this seller Spine and rear and front panels of dustwrapper bright. When a novel becomes an international bestseller 62 years after its original publication, there has to be something to it.

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Published by ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with white titles to spine. No fading.

***Cover photograph: Berlin 1936 by Wolff & Tritschler and author photograph to inner rear flap showing Hans Fallada playing chess (Ullstein bild/AKG). ***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. S.Carter

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When the petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen become involved, blackmail, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, gradually tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks. First impression of the first UK edition with the no.

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