{"product_id":"out-of-the-night-the-memoir-of-richard-julius-herman-krebs-alias-jan-valtin-english-edition","title":"Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin (English Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bestseller in 1941, selected by the Book of the Month Club for a special edition and described by Book of the Month Club News as: “...an autobiography the like of which has seldom been.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and the Gestapo. Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of secret service, only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade’s attempts to kill him. As a professional revolutionary and spy and would-be assassin, Krebs traveled the globe from Germany to China, India to Sierra Leon, Moscow to the United States where a botched assassination attempt landed him a stint in San Quentin State Prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom this spell-binding account of artful deception to gain release from a Nazi prison and his work as a double-agent within the Gestapo, to his vivid depiction of working as a secret agent within the Communist Party fraught with intrigue and subterfuge, Krebs gives an unflinching portrayal of the internal machinations of both political parties and both spy agencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWriting at age 36 under the name Jan Valtin, Krebs here lays bare a young life filled with idealism and devotion - disillusionment and loss - in a world full of revolutionary promise gone immeasurably wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e”An exciting, real book...”—H.G.Wells\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54016558891376,"sku":"978-8834159910","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_8347_1de0853f7b.jpg?v=1783671859","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/out-of-the-night-the-memoir-of-richard-julius-herman-krebs-alias-jan-valtin-english-edition","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}