Wodehouse at War: The Truth About Wodehouse's Broadcasts on Nazi Radio
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Wykeham Books.
Milner and Company, Limited, London, first edition, 1981. Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm,. 167 pp. From the blurb: "In 1941, listeners in Britain and the United States were astonished and disgusted to bear the voice of PG. Wodehouse - probably the greatest humorous writer of English literature - coming to them over the Nazi radio from Berlin. Immediately, Wodehouse was denounced as a traitor. He was accused of having agreed to broadcast Nazi propaganda in order to be let out of one of Hitler's internment camps, where he had been held since being captured by the advancing German Army at Le Touquet in 1940. In the House of Commons, Members ofParliament called for his trial on charges of High Treason. The B.B.C. refused to broadcast any of his work. Public libraries refused to have his books on their shelves. By the general public he was vilified as a second Lord Haw-Haw. In 1944 and 1945, M.I.5. compiled a dossier on Wodehouse's war-time behaviour. But for over 35 years, under successive Conservative and Labour Governments. this dossier was kept secret. The real truth about what Wodehouse did, and why, was never made public. Until now. In 1980, after years of trying, lain Sproat, the Member of Parliament for South Aberdeen, persuaded the Home Office to let him see the M.I.5. dossier on Wodehouse - the first person allowed to do so outside official circles. What he read there convinced him that Wodehouse had been the victim of a grave injustice. Starting from the evidence collected by M.I.5., and the secret British Government memorandums of the time, Mr. Sproat built up a mass of contemporary documents, private diaries and letters, tapes, personal recollections from those who had known Wodehouse, and confidential memorandums from the archives of the German Foreign Office and the Gestapo.This book is essential reading for anyone who has ever got pleasure from the works of P.G. Wodehouse. Not only does it prove his innocence after 40 years, but it contains long, hilarious sections of pure, vintage Wodehouse. The full, original text of the five Berlin broadcasts is published here for the first time - and it is among the funniest stuff Wodehouse ever wrote. Very Good in a dustwrapper with a faded spine.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Camillas Bookshop.
London: Milner & Co. Very Good/Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 090768100 X Bound in smart red cloth with bright, silver titles to spine, this 1981 hardcover First Edtion is VG in VG wrapper (unclipped). 167pp with Wodehouse at War (105pp) plus 8 Appendices (40pp). Clean endpapers and all VG .

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd.
Milner and Co., 1981. 090768100X. 1st edn. 8vo. Originalsilver lettered red cloth (page edges spotted), dustwrapper (spine and adjacent cover faded; spotted on reverse - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 167 (no inscriptions; endpapers lightly spotted).

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Wykeham Books, LONDON, [RE:3].
Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, 167 pp. Hard cover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd, Somerset, [RE:4].
Hard cover.