For less than the price of a seat at the pictures you can discover Hitler's Germany. By reading "Mortal Storm" you will begin to understand what it feels like to be a Jew of 1938 under Nazi rule, or to be a young man enslaved by the hypnotism of Nazi ideals. This book about ordinary people living in Germany is almost a complete statement and certainly an authentic one. It is considered by the publishers to be so urgently important that they have co-operated with Penguin Books Ltd. in printing this special edition that it may be more readily available to you.

Though a work of fiction. "Mortal Storm" is startlingly convincing and yet incredible. It is almost impossible to believe that such conditions can be allowed. Apparently non-Nazis in Germany have the same difficulty of belief. When Freya's Communist lover is shot by her Nazi stepbrother she is stunned not so much by his death as at his being shot by a fellow countryman in time of peace. When her younger brother is stoned in the street and treated as an outcast at school for "smelling like a Jew," he cannot at first believe the reality. When his workmates will no longer linger to gossip over a mug of beer in the suddenly unfriendly "gartens" the ordinary labourer is filled with a dreadful bewilderment. Fear and suspicion arc oppressing even the least sensitive.