TO LOSE A WAR
Memories of a German Girl
1982
First American Edition
Southern Illinois University Press [Carbondale]
8vo (228 pages, illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Navy and grey cloth]
Item Number: 7569
$40.00
Description
A very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket.
From a Silesian family, Shelton was conscripted first for factory work, then for farm work in Czechoslovakia. Her two brothers were drafted and one killed. With the Soviet takeover she became a refugee, eventually escaping to the West. A poignant memoir.