THE RATLINE: LOVE,LIES and JUSTICE on the TRAIL of a NAZI FUGITIVE. [Waterstones Exclusive (Author) Signed Edition with Bonus Content .]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. A Waterstones Exclusive Signed Edition with Bonus Content - via author SIGNED tipped-in page.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to a special tipped-in page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around,matt white background with subject's contemporary colour photograph portrait illustrated front of dw/dj with capitalised,embossed,glossy,white-lettered part+sub-title+ author's name,with black-lettered author credit for 'EAST WEST STREET' and b/w adhesive white-lettered 'Waterstones Exclusive Signed+Bonus Content' roundel to the front of dw/dj; white spine/backstrip with miniaturised coloured thumbnail detail from front's photograph,also with capitalised,black-lettered title+author name and publisher's capitalised,black-lettered initialled name/ colophon to foot of same; rear panel of dw/dj with white background and front's photograph's edges as a narrow border with 5 critics' black-lettered reviews - Le Carre's amongst them. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting ; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain royal blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked white lettering to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain purple endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,Waterstones Exclusive Signed Edition with Bonus Content,1st edn,xviii-xxpp+4-411pp [paginated] includes Principal Characters list,a Prologue with regional b/w map of Austro-Hungarian Empire,1901 to reverse of its last page,Pts I-IV comprising 7, 13,10 and 22 chapters respectively,an Epilogue, b/w thumbnail contemporary facsimile illustration reproductions and b/w photographs etc., interspersed throughout the text and the book,Acknowledgements, Sources,Notes,Illustration and 4 b/w Map Credits,an Index; plus [unpaginated] publisher's colophon illustrated separator page,special tipped-in author SIGNED page,half-title+title pages,a dedication,epigrams (2) page,a Contents list/table,Note to Reader, individual Prologue+Pts separator pages each with an epigram to its reverse,with the reverse of last page of Index having publisher's b/w illustrated advertisement for author's 'East West Street',and to the rear,16pp Afterword of Postcards,Letters and Recording with contemporary b/w facsimile reproduction illustrations and b/w photographs - bonus content Exclusive to Waterstones. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/ state of preservation and presentation. It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of any detracting faults and its particular scarcity as an author's SIGNED Waterstones Exclusive Signed Edition with the Bonus content. As Governor of Galicia SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the Poles and the British, as well as groups of Jews, Wachter went on the run. He spent three years hiding in the Austrian Alps, assisted by his wife Charlotte, before making his way to Rome where he was helped by a Vatican bishop. He remained there for three months. While preparing to travel to Argentina on the 'ratline' he died unexpectedly in July 1949, a few days after spending a weekend with an 'old comrade'. In 'The Ratline' Philippe Sands offers a unique account of the daily life of a senior Nazi and fugitive, and of his wife. Drawing on a remarkable archive of family letters and diaries, he unveils a fascinating insight into life before and during the war, on the run, in Rome, and into the Cold War. Eventually the door is unlocked to a mystery that haunts Wachter's youngest son, who continues to believe his father was a good man, what happened to Otto Wachter, and how did he die? Recently read on BBC Radio Four. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. 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