The Last Five Hours of Austria (1938)

First Edition of This Minute-By-Minute Account Last Five Hours Before the Anschluss, Written By Anti-Nazi Vienna Telegraph Editor Eugene Lennhoff

Lennhoff, Eugene. The Last Five Hours of Austria. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1938.

Thick octavo. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

First edition of this outstanding account of the confusing and tense hours before the annexation of Austria, in the original dust jacket. "At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of 11 March 1938, Eugene Lennhoff, editor of the Vienna Telegraph, was awaiting a last-minute statement from the Austrian government concerning the scheduled plebiscite. At 8:00 PM, as Chancellor Kurt von Schusehnigg sounded the death knell of independent Austria, Herr Lennhoff fled toward the Hungarian frontier... His story of those last hours, while hastily written, is a splendid job of reportorial writing... It is vivid, authoritative, simple and bitter" (Review of Current Military Literature). Pencil owner signature. Book near-fine, dust jacket very good with a bit of wear to extremities and toning and dampspotting to spine. A most desirable copy.