Blood and Soil: Walther Darre & Hitler’s Green Party

First edition, first impression. 286pp, with occasional black and white plate illustrations. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth just a little pushed at spine ends. Upper text block edge a little dust darkened. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, gently bumped at extreme edges, slight shelf wear and some faint and occasional spotting on the interior.

In this first full length biography of Richard Walter Darre, national peasant leader in Hitler’s Germany and Minister of Agriculture from the mid 1930s to the mid 1940s, Bramwell presents a picture of the man who, despite his position in the Nazi regime, was never close to Hitler and prioritised his vision of restructuring German society around the peasantry, based on the concept on Erbhof.