Published by London, Andre Deutsch,1952. 1st edition. 630 pages. Very good + black cloth covers in a very good + pictorial dust jacket. Internally fine with a frontis and other black and white ills. A now hard to find title. Franz von Papen, (born Oct. 29, 1879, Werl, Ger.—died May 2, 1969, Obersasbach, W.Ger.), German statesman and diplomat who played a leading role in dissolving the Weimar Republic and in helping Adolf Hitler to become German chancellor in 1933. As vice chancellor, Papen, whose fellow non-Nazi nationalists received a majority of the ministerial posts, naively thought he could restrain the Nazis. Though he soon realized how mistaken he had been, he continued to serve Hitler. Papen narrowly escaped with his life during Hitler’s purge of the SA on June 30, 1934, and he resigned the vice chancellorship three days later. He was then sent as ambassador to Austria (1934–38), for whose annexation to Germany he worked. He eventually became ambassador to Turkey (1939–44), where he attempted to keep that country out of an alliance with the Allies. Papen was arrested by the Allies in April 1945 and placed on trial as a war criminal. Found not guilty by the Nürnberg tribunal of conspiracy to prepare aggressive war, he was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment by a German court as a major Nazi, but in 1949, on his appeal, he was released and fined. Papen’s memoirs, Der Wahrheit eine Gasse (Memoirs), appeared in 1952.