WISKEMANN, Elizabeth. Undeclared War
WISKEMANN, Elizabeth. Undeclared War. London: Constable. 1939. Large 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean but backstrip slightly mottled. Binding sound, tight and square. The contents clean, faint offsetting to endpapers else fine. The dust jacket price-clipped with an amended 2/6 net price sticker to jacket foot. Very mild bumps and rubbing, spine panel toned with a few other faint stains.
An important volume by the Cambridge professor and intelligence officer who was linked to the Bloomsbury Group by her friendships with Leonard Woolf and Julian Bell, whom she dated for a short while. Wiskemann read at Newnham College, Cambridge where she met Rupert Brooke, Kathleen Raine, and Bell. Her intention was to enter academia but felt dissatisfied and frustrated by its male-dominated sphere, expressing this publicly. As reaction, she moved to Germany in the 1920s which allowed her a first-hand view of the rising Nazis. She wrote essays warning of their rise, and of their treatment of the Jewish people, as early as 1932, a year prior to their gaining power. This is her second published book, an account of the quasi-war that made the outbreak unavoidable. She was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo, and later expelled. She worked as Intelligence Officer at the Foreign Office, basing herself across Central Europe and reporting on all aspects of the Third Reich. She had resistance connections across Europe and her reports of the Holocaust were disturbingly ignored by British Intelligence until after the war. Scarce.
WISKEMANN, Elizabeth. Undeclared War. London: Constable. 1939. Large 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean but backstrip slightly mottled. Binding sound, tight and square. The contents clean, faint offsetting to endpapers else fine. The dust jacket price-clipped with an amended 2/6 net price sticker to jacket foot. Very mild bumps and rubbing, spine panel toned with a few other faint stains.
An important volume by the Cambridge professor and intelligence officer who was linked to the Bloomsbury Group by her friendships with Leonard Woolf and Julian Bell, whom she dated for a short while. Wiskemann read at Newnham College, Cambridge where she met Rupert Brooke, Kathleen Raine, and Bell. Her intention was to enter academia but felt dissatisfied and frustrated by its male-dominated sphere, expressing this publicly. As reaction, she moved to Germany in the 1920s which allowed her a first-hand view of the rising Nazis. She wrote essays warning of their rise, and of their treatment of the Jewish people, as early as 1932, a year prior to their gaining power. This is her second published book, an account of the quasi-war that made the outbreak unavoidable. She was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo, and later expelled. She worked as Intelligence Officer at the Foreign Office, basing herself across Central Europe and reporting on all aspects of the Third Reich. She had resistance connections across Europe and her reports of the Holocaust were disturbingly ignored by British Intelligence until after the war. Scarce.
WISKEMANN, Elizabeth. Undeclared War. London: Constable. 1939. Large 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean but backstrip slightly mottled. Binding sound, tight and square. The contents clean, faint offsetting to endpapers else fine. The dust jacket price-clipped with an amended 2/6 net price sticker to jacket foot. Very mild bumps and rubbing, spine panel toned with a few other faint stains.
An important volume by the Cambridge professor and intelligence officer who was linked to the Bloomsbury Group by her friendships with Leonard Woolf and Julian Bell, whom she dated for a short while. Wiskemann read at Newnham College, Cambridge where she met Rupert Brooke, Kathleen Raine, and Bell. Her intention was to enter academia but felt dissatisfied and frustrated by its male-dominated sphere, expressing this publicly. As reaction, she moved to Germany in the 1920s which allowed her a first-hand view of the rising Nazis. She wrote essays warning of their rise, and of their treatment of the Jewish people, as early as 1932, a year prior to their gaining power. This is her second published book, an account of the quasi-war that made the outbreak unavoidable. She was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo, and later expelled. She worked as Intelligence Officer at the Foreign Office, basing herself across Central Europe and reporting on all aspects of the Third Reich. She had resistance connections across Europe and her reports of the Holocaust were disturbingly ignored by British Intelligence until after the war. Scarce.