The final offensives of the Second World War - Arnhem, the Rhine crossing and the invasion of Germany - provide war-shattered settings for John Prebble's novel, The Edge of Darkness. In this, the most intimately experience of all his books, he records the feelings and reactions (seldom heroic) of five very different members of a front-line searchlight troop. But victory and vengeance breed anti-climax. In the rubble of post-war Hamburg, with its currency of cigarettes and its sinister black market, and in the brief, ...
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The final offensives of the Second World War - Arnhem, the Rhine crossing and the invasion of Germany - provide war-shattered settings for John Prebble's novel, The Edge of Darkness. In this, the most intimately experience of all his books, he records the feelings and reactions (seldom heroic) of five very different members of a front-line searchlight troop. But victory and vengeance breed anti-climax. In the rubble of post-war Hamburg, with its currency of cigarettes and its sinister black market, and in the brief, flickering affair between Ted Jones and a tragic German widow John Prebble faithfully portrays Germany in defeat. Like Culloden, his famous account of the Forty-five, The Edge of Darkness is neither cheerful nor glorious. It is a grim but just epitaph on war.
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Varied. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean, little wear except for thin coating of something on lower half of foredge. Innards clean & tight, name on IFC. 325 pp.
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First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 12mo (19cm by 13cm), vii, 245pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Minor tape stains to the endpapers, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good minus condition (chipped and torn with some loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.
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Good. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Published in Great Britain. No extraneous markings. All pages are intact and binding is strong. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
