I have just received stock of this book, price wise, the
cover price is £18.99, Amazon are selling it for £15.19 and a few of the firms
who sell via Amazon but have positive feedback of 98% or less are selling it as
cheaply as £13, we are selling new copies signed by the author for £14.99 in
the shop only.
Before I tell you about the book, the trade price to me is
£12, giving a profit per book of £2.99, so you can see the reason why there are
virtually no independent bookshops left.
Anyway the choice is yours, use it or lose it, my
recommendation is the signed copy as it will better appreciate in value and you
can see what condition it’s in before you buy it.
In November 1938 about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken
to concentration camps where they were subjected to torture, starvation and
arbitrary death. In Four Thousand Lives, Clare Ungerson tells the remarkable
story of how the grandees of Anglo-Jewry persuaded the British Government to
allow them to establish a transit camp in Sandwich, East Kent, to which up to
4,000 men could be brought while they waited for permanent settlement overseas.
The whole rescue was funded by the British Jewish community, with help from
American Jewry. Most of the men had to leave their families behind. Would they
get them out in time? And how would the people of Sandwich - a town the same
size as the camp - react to so many German speaking Jewish foreigners? There was
a well-organised branch of the British Union of Fascists in Sandwich. Lady
Pearson, the BUF candidate for Canterbury, was President of the Sandwich
Chamber of Commerce and Captain Gordon Canning, a prominent Fascist and close
friend of Oswald Mosley, lived there and he and his grand friends used to meet
there to play golf. This background adds to the drama of the race against time
to save lives. Four Thousand Lives is not just a story of salvation, but also a
revealing account of how a small English community reacted to the arrival of so
many German Jews in their midst.
notes
Professor Clare Ungerson
Emerita
University of Southampton
ISBN 0752497936 Pages 208
ISBN13 9780752497938
Weight
(grammes) 544
Publisher The
History Press Ltd Published in Stroud
Imprint The History
Press Ltd Published in GB
Format Hardback Height
(mm) 234
Publication date 25
Feb 2014 Width (mm) 156
DEWEY 940.5318 Spine
width (mm) 25
DEWEY edition DC23 Academic
level General
