Bidspirit auction | The Ten Commandments – Ten

The Ten Commandments – Ten Short Novels by Leading World Authors Against Nazism | New York, 1944 - A powerful and historically important wartime publication: The Ten Commandments – Ten Short Novels of Hitler’s War Against the Moral Code, a unique literary anthology in which ten major international authors each interpret one of the Ten Commandments as a moral response to Nazi ideology and violence. Contributors include: Thomas Mann, Rebecca West, Franz Werfel, John Erskine, Bruno Frank, Jules Romains, André Maurois, Sigrid Undset, Hendrik Willem van Loon, and Louis Bromfield. Edited by Armin L. Robinson, with a preface by Hermann Rauschning. Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1944 Original red cloth hardcover. 488 pages. Condition: Good overall condition. Expected age toning and light foxing to pages, minor wear and rubbing to the binding, complete and firmly bound. Collectible significance: An exceptional cultural document of World War II, representing the intellectual and moral resistance of Europe’s leading writers in exile. Highly desirable for collectors of WWII history, anti-Nazi literature, Jewish and European exile culture, and first-generation wartime publications.