The Day Before Sunrise by Thomas Wiseman Hardcover Book

Title: The Day Before Sunrise by Thomas Wiseman Hardcover Book.
Author: Thomas Wiseman.
Type: WW2 Fiction.
Edition: First Edition 1976.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London.
Year First Published: 1976.
Format: Hardcover Book, with dust jacket.
Printed By: Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome & London.
Page Count: 335 pages.
Width: 14.0cm
Height: 20.5cm
Thickness: 3.0cm
Info: The Allied stranglehold on Berlin is tightening by the day, as the escape corridor to the Bavarian Alps and the Swiss border is narrowing.
In the maze of ruins that Berlin has become, a man of appalling ingenuity, with a ruthless sense of self-preservation, contrives his escape.
He is the secret policeman Ernst Scholler.
In his shabby, shiny suit with its sagging pockets, he is not immediately recognizable as someone of importance, but as the Reich Special Investigator he has long been checking up on the highest in the land, and there is nothing he doesn't know.
Using his position of knowledge, he begins to bargain for his life with the Allies.
The man with whom the bargain must be made is Allen Welsh Dulles, chief of the O.S.S. in Switzerland and President Roosevelt's personal representative.
With chilling pragmatism, he sees that the longer the German surrender is delayed the deeper the Communist penetration of Europe will be.
In order to stop Tito's seizure of Trieste, he is ready to talk to the devil himself.
Scholler and Dulles, both professionals and practical men, arrive at an arrangement of expediency in Berne.
Thomas Wiseman was born in Vienna in 1931 and came to England at the age of seven. He was a columnist on the Evening Standard from 1953 until 1961, when he became film critic for the Sunday Express. 
Condition: Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. Discolouration spots on ends of pages, pages internally are fine. Dust jacket and cover boards are good.
Price: R 75.00 Inc Vat.