Pelicans ISBN 0 14 02.2878 0 - The Nazi Seizure of Power

To my mother and to the memory of my father, who taught me love of learning

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First published in the USA by Franklin Watts, New York 1965 Revised edition 1984 Published in Penguin Books 1989

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