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Very Good in Good jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition, 8vo, with dust jacket and 235 pages. Decorated map endpapers. Leo Lania was a left wing Austrian journalist who was stationed in Berlin in 1921. Disguised as an Italian fascist, he gained access to Adolf Hitler in 1923 and published one of the first internationally acclaimed interviews with Hitler. His experience as a former investigative journalist with the emerging Nazi movement was documented in the books "The Gravedigger Germany" (1924) and "The Hitler-Ludendorff-Process" (1925). In the book "Guns on Tourism" (1924), he warned of the dangers of the secret rearmament of Germany. Because of the impending takeover of power by the Nazis, in 1932 he emigrated to Austria and to France in 1933. After the outbreak of war in 1939 Lania was imprisoned for several months. In 1940 he escaped from Brittany to southern France than Spain and Portugal. The next year he emigrated to the United States and worked for the U.S. propaganda apparatus Office of War Information. This is the story of his escape to freedom. "The Darkest Hour" is a fantastic story of one great escape from a concentration camp. The book is in very good condition with some bumping and shelf wear to book. The dust jacket is in good to fair condition bumping-chipping to edges. Interior very clean and tight. Red cloth, Sun faded dust jacket brown-tan color.