For Those I Loved

Gray, Martin (Mieczyslaw Grajewski), with Max Gallo. Translated from the French by Anthony White

ISBN 10: 0370102444 / ISBN 13: 9780370102443

Edité par The Bodley Head / Little Brown & Co, London, 1972

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First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, some slight yellowing to back jacket and page block, spine slightly faded. Not price clipped (£3.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 351pp. Martin Gray, born Mieczyslaw Grajewski (1922-2016), was a Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the West, and published books in French about his purported experiences during World War II in which his family perished in Poland. Unfortunately, Holocaust historian Gitta Sereny has dismissed Gray's autobiographical book as partly fiction in a 1979 article in New Statesman magazine, writing that 'Gray's 'For Those I Loved' was the work of Max Gallo the ghostwriter, who also produced Papillon. Some of Gray's claims of wartime heroism were dismissed in Poland as untrue by the 'Silent Unseen' Captain Waclaw Kopisto, who claimed that Gray had never been part of his unit and did not take part in the raid (described in the book) on the Nazi German prison in Pinsk on 18th January 1943. Sadly, Gray was found dead in his swimming pool three days before his 94th birthday, at his home in Ciney, Belgium, where he had lived since 2012. 'For Those I Loved' was made into a film in 1983 starring Michael York as Gray, directed by Robert Enrico. Quite a scarce book.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: For Those I Loved
• Éditeur: The Bodley Head / Little Brown & Co, London
• Date de parution: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0370102444
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780370102443
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Jacket by Peter Dunbar
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

VG condition book with a good DJ. Boards are clean with minor wear. Content clean with bright pages and a solid binding. Good DJ with light edge wear namely rubbing to edges sunning to spine.