Primo Levi: 'The Truce. A Survivor's Journey Home from Ausch...

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Primo Levi: 'The Truce. A Survivor's Journey Home from Auschwitz', London, The Bodley Head, 1965, 1st UK edition, translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (front panel drawing by Marc Chagall). First English edition of the sequel to 'If This Is a Man', by the Jewish-Italian chemist, author and holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987). Memoir in which he describes his experiences from the liberation of Auschwitz (Monowitz) concentration camp, during his incredibly circuitous return to Italy via Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and his rediscovery of humanity after his harrowing 10 months in the German death camp.