Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO40090111: 1953. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos frotté, Intérieur bon état. 300 pages. Etiquette annotée sur le dos. Tampons et quelques annotations en pages de garde et de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine.
Verlag: The Ardent Writer Press, LLC, 2018
ISBN 10: 1938667980 ISBN 13: 9781938667985
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 406 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1952
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. "Belgian Father Raymond de Jaegher first went to China as a missionary in 1930, and from that time until his perilous escape from the country in 1949 he watched the insidious but systematic spread of Communist domination in the Far East. He presents a graphic and unforgettable eyewitness report on Red conquest, which might happen similarly in any nation, a creeping terror which unrolled before his eyes 'like a Chinese scroll painted by a devil.' Father de Jaegher often finds flashes of humor in his experiences, but most of his shrewd and articulate report is grimly serious. And whether relating events during his imprisonment in a Japanese concentration camp, recounting talks with Chiang Kai-chek, or tracing the vain efforts of the United States to bring peace to China, he tells his story in terms of people, showing vividly the devastating effects of communism on all classes, from peasant to scholar and banker." - Archive dot org. 314 pages. Index. Laid in are four news clippings documenting five Canadian nuns charged with the murder of 2,116 orphans through ill treatment and cruelty at the Immaculate Conception Orphanage in Canton between Oct. 14, 1949 and Jan. 14, 1951. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. No dust jacket. One-inch opening to original tan cloth at top of backstrip. A sound copy of this sobering account. ; 8vo.