Die Vierzig Tage Des Musa Dagh.

Werfel, Franz.

Verlag: Berlin, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1933

Beschreibung

Berlin, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1933, first edition, dust jackets. Hardcover. Two volumes, red cloth, ribbon place marker, this copy Signed by Werfel in Vienna in the year of publication, according to a letter from Europe Unie Books, the book was published in both red and blue cloth, the first edition consisted of 10,000 copies, "The book burnings took place in Germany at the beginning of the Third Reich, and although books were confiscated and burned, it was mostly for show, as most of the 'forbidden' books were shipped off to Holland in an attempt to flood the market there with German books and thereby bankrupt the publishers of German authors in exile, such as Werfel," but few were actually burned, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915, extremely scarce when found signed by Werfel, none were found on-line as of this writing. Very good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers JD33880

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Die Vierzig Tage Des Musa Dagh.

Verlag: Berlin, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1933

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

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