New York: Alliance Book Corporation, c. 1941. Binding: Publisher’s blue cloth. Gilt text on cover. Gilt text on spine. Top edge dyed red. Pasted and free marbled endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. , Notes: Jan Valtin was the alias of Richard Julius Hermann Krebs (1905 - 1951), a German writer during the interwar period. He settled to the United States in 1938, and in 1940 (as Valtin) wrote his bestselling book Out of the Night, his highly publicized autobiography. In the book he described in detail the actions he supposedly had carried on as a secret agent of the Soviet GPU. A 1926 attempted murder was described by Krebs/Valtin as a GPU operation. The book received great critical acclaim. A 1940 review for the Saturday Review of Literature reads: "No other books more clearly reveals the aid which Stalin gave to Hitler before he won power". As a result, he Valtin/Krebs was invited to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee as regards Soviet secret activities in Europe., Size: 8vo (238x153mm). , Category: Book Literature; Book Military. The book is in very good condition. The dust jacket is in fair condition. Item #B5400

Binding: Publisher’s blue cloth. Gilt text on cover. Gilt text on spine. Top edge dyed red. Pasted and free marbled endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. , Notes: Jan Valtin was the alias of Richard Julius Hermann Krebs (1905 - 1951), a German writer during the interwar period. He settled to the United States in 1938, and in 1940 (as Valtin) wrote his bestselling book Out of the Night, his highly publicized autobiography. In the book he described in detail the actions he supposedly had carried on as a secret agent of the Soviet GPU. A 1926 attempted murder was described by Krebs/Valtin as a GPU operation. The book received great critical acclaim. A 1940 review for the Saturday Review of Literature reads: "No other books more clearly reveals the aid which Stalin gave to Hitler before he won power". As a result, he Valtin/Krebs was invited to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee as regards Soviet secret activities in Europe., Size: 8vo (238x153mm). , Category: Book Literature; Book Military.

Price: $75.00