The Wall by John Hersey

Hardcover. Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket: Good+/Very Good-. 1950. Alfred A. Knopf. 1st Edition.

Dust jacket has minor wear, small chips and tears. Interior clean and in fine condition.

The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men & women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution & as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation & cruelty--a gripping, visceral story, impossible to put down.