MY YEARS IN GERMANY BY: MARTHA DODD

FEATURES:  MY YEARS IN GERMANY  BY: MARTHA DODD

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A) CONDITION BOOK: VERY GOOD - HARD BOUND

B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: ABSENT

C) FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINT [SAME MONTH AS 1ST] - VICTOR GOLLANCZ 1939

D) NOTE: DODD WAS THE DAUGHTER OF US AMBASSADOR IN 1930'S.  INITIALLY ENAMORED OF THE NAZI IDEOLOGY, SHE FORMED INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER HIGH RANKING NAZI'S.   AS THE HORRORS OF THE EMERGING GERMAN STATE BECAME APPARENT, DODD BEGAN SYMPATHIZING WITH AN EVENTUALLY SPIED FOR THE SOVIET UNION.  THIS BOOKS IS CONCERNED WITH WHAT WAS TO PROVE AN ADVENTURE FILLED AND COMPLEX LIFE. RARE IN SUCH AN EARLY EDITION.  319 PAGES.

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BOOK GRADING CATEGORIES:

FINE

VERY GOOD

GOOD

FAIR

POOR
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Miss Dodd writes that the president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had no takers for the post of US Ambassador to Germany, and so he chose Mr. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic, who had studied in Germany, was fluent in German language and literature, and was retiring from his post at the University of Chicago. Dodd thought that going to the land he loved would be the perfect backdrop to his finally completing that multi-volume history he'd been putting off for years!
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Miss Dodd went to Berlin with her father, mother and brother in 1933, and stayed there until her father resigned his post in 1937, partly for health reasons, partly because of increased conflict with the State Department, and partly because of his increasing unease with the Nazi regime.