Last Train From Berlin: An Eye-Witness Account of Germany at War.

SMITH, Howard K.

Item Number: 115338

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943.

First edition, early printing of Smith’s sensational best-selling work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With warm best wishes to Dr. Arnold Krammer, Howard K. Smith.” The recipient, Dr. Arnold Krammer, was an American historian who specialized in German and United States history. He was a professor at Texas A&M University and twice a Fulbright scholar in Germany in 1992-1993 and 2002-2003. He was the author of seven books, the most recent of which was War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: Historical Perspective, published in 2009. He has additionally co-authored five books and penned scores of historical articles and book reviews in various learned journals, such as The Journal of Contemporary History, Slavic Review, The Russian Review, German Studies Review and Journal of Military History. With a typed letter signed by Smith addressed to Krammer as Professor of History at Texas A&M University in the original transmittal envelope. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition. Jacket art by Jean Carin.

Howard K. Smith worked as a young reporter in Berlin during Hitler's rise to power, and for the first two years of the Second World War. Finally granted a visa to leave the country on December 7th, 1941, he set down to write about everything censors had forbidden about the physical, emotional, and psychological manipulation of the German people by Hitler, Goebbels, and their lackeys. Smith's first book, it became an American best-seller and was reprinted in 2001, shortly before Smith's death.