1996 Harpers - New York. First Edition First Printing 12mo = 7-9" 323pp. Very Good + / Very Good + DJ Reddish boards w/black cloth spine. Dj has some slight scuffing and soiling. The author is a local Wilbraham, MA author and this was his first book. "This extraordinarily engrossing literary mystery exposes a little-known chapter of twentieth-century history- the detention of nearly 400,000 German prisoners of war in the U.S. during World War II. The landscape of rural Maine provided a surreal sort of shelter for these most reviled casualties during the war." Contains a promotional postcard and a letter to the author from the previous owner of the book. Book# F17563, $100.00