Dämmerung Über England.

JOYCE, William [Lord Haw Haw] (1906-1946).

Berlin: Internationaler Verlag, 1940. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.232. Extra-illustrated with contemporary news clippings concerning the conviction and execution of the author. All text in German. Publisher blue card wraps with black titles to spine and upper. Quite heavily browned as expected. Light rubbing to extremities, with some heavier rubbing and a few tears to spine; mottling and marking to wraps. Very good. Issued simultaneously with a cloth hardcover edition, this is a very rare book, with only three copies listed on Copac. It is the main work of 'Lord Haw Haw', who was one of just three people convicted of treason in a British Court since the Second World War, and one of just two executed for a crime other than murder since then. Joyce was hugely influential in Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists between 1934 and 1937, when he was sacked following poor results at the election of that year. In August 1939 he managed to flee to Nazi Germany, where he eventually became the chief broadcaster of propaganda to Allied forces, in which role he gained his nick-name and published this book, which was distributed to prisoners of war. Item #52305

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