Hans Fallada — Every Man Dies Alone

Melville House First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2009. 8vo., 544pp., illustrated with map endpapers. Fine in fine dust jacket. "The greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis."-Primo LeviThis never-before-translated masterpiece-by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party-is based on a true story.It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in. Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing Brooklyn, NY 8vo 544