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...INCREDIBLE KRUPPS (308 pp.)-Norbert Muhlen-Holt...
...family was rarely false to the Shavian armorer's creed. The blood-and-iron saga of Kruppdom, including its rise from the ashes of World Wars I and II, is an intrinsically fascinating story. Unfortunately the drama is often dulled by German-born Author Norbert Muhlen's drab style. But he livens his chronicle with a series of personality sketches of the lonely, driven eccentrics who lorded it over the steelworks at Essen, and were lucky at cartels, unlucky at love...
Alliance (the name is supposed to symbolize a tie between the Old World and the New) began in 1938 as a representative for various German publishing houses in exile. Next year Koppell decided to concentrate on books in English. His fifth book (first was Norbert Muhlen's life of Schacht) was Hermann Rauschning's best-selling Revolution of Nihilism. He also published Boris Souvarine's Stalin, began Alliance's Face of America books about the U.S. Among his latest are Rauschning's The Redemption of Democracy (TIME, March 3), Patten's Mr. Frank Merriwell...
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