Fischer (Henry W.) The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp.
£325
From the papers and diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D’Alteville
London, Cassell, 1916.
First edition, Canadian Export issue. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 50 cents.
Published during the First World War, this sensational work claims to reveal the private life of Bertha Krupp, heiress to Germany’s vast armaments empire, through the supposed diaries of her governess, Baroness d’Alteville. Casting Krupp as an agent of the Kaiser in a campaign against Britain, the book presents itself as exposé but is in fact a transparent work of wartime fiction. Contemporary reviewers dismissed it as a dubious “shocker,” filled with implausible private conversations and speculative “information” that strained credulity.
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Cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket chipped with some loss around spine ends and fore-corners, but otherwise very good.
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