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Hardcover, lacking dust-jacket. 253 pages. Introduction by W.J. West. Stated first American edition. A collection of 49 broadcasts presented by Eric Arthur Blair (Orwell) over the BBC from 12/20/41, to 3/13/1943. Designed to counter Nazi propaganda Blair struggled with those portions of the messaging he believed to be out-right falsifications, particularly as they related to India, Constrained by the wartime censor his distaste for the distortion of the truth presaged his later efforts as a novelist. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight and unmarked copy which shows a touch of tanning to white cloth spine. Very good.