HEINRICH, Willi. The Willing Flesh. Trans. from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1956. 8vo. First English language edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Werner Stein. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Corners very gently bumped. Light spots to the textblock edges but the contents largely clean, with faint offsetting to endpapers and previous owner inscription of Scottish author, Bruce Marshall, to front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net), spine panel slightly faded, several small chips and closed tears along spine head and tail, light rubbing elsewhere.
‘The war was lost; the generals had failed; but doggedly, through mud and snow and carnage, the German troops fought for mere survival’. The author’s own account of the German retreat from ‘the hopeless, savage Russian Front’. Deceit and treachery reveal themselves not just through the advancing Russian troops, but within the Wehrmacht itself, when survival is all. Upon publication, it was an immediate success and this British edition was followed by a US edition under the title ‘The Cross of Iron’. A film of the same name appeared in 1979, though which does not entirely follow the book’s plot. Scarce in such sharp condition.
HEINRICH, Willi. The Willing Flesh. Trans. from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1956. 8vo. First English language edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Werner Stein. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Corners very gently bumped. Light spots to the textblock edges but the contents largely clean, with faint offsetting to endpapers and previous owner inscription of Scottish author, Bruce Marshall, to front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net), spine panel slightly faded, several small chips and closed tears along spine head and tail, light rubbing elsewhere.
‘The war was lost; the generals had failed; but doggedly, through mud and snow and carnage, the German troops fought for mere survival’. The author’s own account of the German retreat from ‘the hopeless, savage Russian Front’. Deceit and treachery reveal themselves not just through the advancing Russian troops, but within the Wehrmacht itself, when survival is all. Upon publication, it was an immediate success and this British edition was followed by a US edition under the title ‘The Cross of Iron’. A film of the same name appeared in 1979, though which does not entirely follow the book’s plot. Scarce in such sharp condition.
