All Honorable Men
by Martin, James Stewart
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. viii, 326. Index. "The story of the men on both sides of the Atlantic who successfully thwarted plans to dismantle the Nazi cartel system. The first complete account of how the giant German industrial and financial combines subsidized Hitler and the Nazi military machine on the one hand, and on the other hand conspired to weaken Europe and America through favorable cartel agreements, in preparation for world conquest. Names all the major individuals and all the major firms involved. Describes incidents of how we actually aided the enemy in wartime. Written from firsthand experience by the man who, as Chief of the Decartelization Branch of our Military Government, was not allowed to complete the mission set by President Roosevelt. Reveals the obstacles that blocked the mission's path. Exposes what happened when the interests of businessmen conflicted with U.S. war aims." - dust jacket. Author was a lawyer turned professor who was invited to join the Board of Economic Warfare (BEW) in 1942. Light wear to publisher's pale green cloth. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper. Short marginal ink lines on approximately fourteen pages, otherwise contents clean and bright. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. This title has been assigned a prestigious place on the 'Forbidden Bookshelf', a short list of American books once 'vanished' by state and corporate entities but now being revived with a view to providing a better understanding of America's past and how her future course might be corrected.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Forbidden Bookshelf, I.G. Farben, the Rayon Trust, the International Steel Cartel, General Aniline and Film, .
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 113H5110
- Title
- All Honorable Men
- Author
- Martin, James Stewart
- Illustrator
- Bryant, Samuel (dust jacket)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Forbidden Bookshelf, I.G. Farben, The Rayon Trust, The International Steel Cartel, General Aniline And Film,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Conspiracy;
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