Out of the Night By Jan Valtin, 1941 1st EDITION - Alliance Vintage Memoir

Out of the Night by Jan Valtin aka Richard Julius Herman Krebs - Presumed 1st Edition - 1941. Has dust jacket, partly ripped but cased in mylar. Tight binding. Has some discoloration and fading from the sun and time. "In the plain, unvarnished days of the Russian Revolution, the Chekists used to keep batteries of automobile engines constantly running to drown out the human and mechanical sounds from the execution cellars. As Russia sought to “catch up with and surpass capitalist technology,” less garish techniques were found for silencing the human voice. Few of the men and women who might tell how Communism really works ever escaped to tell. The handful who did 1 were defeated by a twofold irony: 1) they were suspect as Communists, doubly suspect as ex-Communists; 2) the things of which they tried to warn the world were so monstrous that few believed them."