First edition, first printing. 188pp. Illustrated with black and white plate pictures. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine (Boards strong, clean, very slightly offset). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (lightly rounded at spine ends). Dust jacket now protected in an archival-quality mylar sleeve which is not adhered to the volume or the jacket. Kessler examines the story of Jochan Peiper, once the dashing leader of one of the most well-known German Army Units, but tried and imprisoned by the allied forces for the Malmedy Massacre during the Ardennes Offensive, ultimately to be assassinated in 1976. Leo Kessler was one of the pen names of second world war veteran and historian, Charles Whiting, who also wrote under the names Ian Harding, John Kerrigan and others. Almost always writing on a war or military theme, whether fact or fiction, by the time of his death in 2007, Whiting was known as a phenomena of the publishing industry, with more than 350 titles to his (several) names, most associated with accurately researched and well-written war histories and novels with war background drenched in sex and violence. He has become collectible, especially for novels and histories published under his own name and those of Ian Harding, Leo Kessler and John Kerrigan. We have many titles by the same author - please inquire for multiple discounts.
