"Inside Europe: Again Completely Revised 1938 Edition" by John Gunther, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1938. First Edition. The famous contemporary account of Europe & its leaders on the eve of World War II by John Gunther (1901-1970), the great & prolific American journalist & author.

Hard boards, original beige cloth, with colored map on front cover and lettering on spine; 6" x 8.3/4"; fold-out map of Europe, xxvii + 532 pages including Index; very good condition.

"This book is about being inside Germany in the year before WWII began. It is so up to the minute (written at the time the events were unfolding) that it made me feel as though I was there with John Gunther reviewing the day's events. Superb book." [a review]

"The appearance of this book has marked a new departure in publishing history. For the first time, a publisher and an author have collaborated to keep a book on current events as completely up-to-date as the events themselves. When Inside Europe first appeared, Edward VIII had just mounted the throne, the Spanish revolution was unheard of, the Front Populaire was still struggling for power in France, the re-armament of the Rhine existed only in the minds of Germany's war lords. Yet today your copy of Inside Europe covers fully the development of every one of these situations. As the European front changes, Gunther writes a new interpretation, the publishers reset and reprint- and Inside Europe remains the one complete up-to-the-minute book on the subject."

Gunther goes into great detail about the personalities and politics of Europe as the crisis leading to WWII unfolds. There is an in-depth examination of fascism in Germany, Italy and Spain; the weakening republic in France; Austria, England and Russia. Much of the book is spent discussing Hitler and Mussolini, and to a lesser extent Chamberlain, Stalin, Thomas Masaryk (Czechoslovakia), Pilsudski (Poland), Ataturk (Turkey).

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