My Four Years In Germany
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917. 1st Edition. Cloth boards. 448 pages; 5.5"x8.25"' green boards w/gilt embossed letters; faded gilt letters on spine. Formal documents & telegrams as paste downs and fly papers. Frontispiece: Ambassador Gerard saying good-bye to the Americans leaving on a special train. August 1914. George H. Doran Co. colophon on title page. PON in ink on title page and 2nd fly paper. Spine reinforced with clear spine tape. Archival hinge tape inside front cover. Fraying to edges. Much shelf wear and bumps to corners. Many B&W photos. Deckled edge. Lite foxing through-out. Collectible - Good. Item #7623
WWI. Written by the Ambassador to the German Imperial Court. Illustrated. From the foreword: I am writing what should ahve been the last chapter of thsi book as a foreword because I want to bring home to our people the gravity of the situation: because I want to tell them that the military and naval power of the German Empire is unbroken; that of the twelve million men whom the Kaiser ahd called to the colrs but one million, five hundred thousand have been killed, five hundread thousand permanaently disable, not mor ethan five hundred thousand are prisoners of war, and about five hundred thousan dconstitute the number of wounded or those on the sick list of each day, leaving at all times about nin million effectives under arms.
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