Comments on Bookride: Libraries of the Great Dictators 1

This book is good one but i have gone through one ...

2011-10-31T11:40:28.800Z

This book is good one but i have gone through one website wehre it has best collection of books and based on adolf Hittler website is www.maansu.com

Margaret Thatcher's favourite author was, repo...

2011-10-21T19:48:46.483Z

Margaret Thatcher's favourite author was, reportedly, Frederick Forsyth. I'm not sure if that was before or after he wrote a novel whose characters included a famously strong-willed British prime minister named Joan Carpenter.

For more on Adolf Hitler's books, see Timothy ...

2011-10-21T18:49:31.839Z

For more on Adolf Hitler's books, see Timothy Ryback's 2008 book, Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shapted His Life.

Thanks Paul. Have put a pic of the cover up. He se...

2011-10-18T18:15:31.264Z

Thanks Paul. Have put a pic of the cover up. He seems to have written two other books - 'My Vision' and another with the nifty title 'The Green Book: The Solution to the Problem of Democracy, The Solution to the Economic Problem, The Social Basis of the Third Universal Theory.' Pierre Salinger's eulogy to Q in the short story book is said to be nauseating and Amazon critics dismiss the book itself it as 'drivel.'

Gaddafi aspired to be a man of letters. My local O...

2011-10-18T16:45:07.335Z

Gaddafi aspired to be a man of letters. My local Oxfam shop recently displayed the presciently-titled "Escape to Hell and other stories" by Muammar Qaddafi, complete with dust-jacket in which the despot was pictured in scholar's robes in a booklined room (possibly the elusive personal library you speculate about).

I guess the westerns would be Karl May's "...

2011-10-17T18:20:36.348Z

I guess the westerns would be Karl May's "Old Shatterhand' novels which were hugely popular in Germany (are they any good?)

One of the books in Hitler's library is from a French chef to a 'fellow vegeterian' though the arguments as to how veggie Hitler was still go on.

Thanks Sarah -- I know the bookplate not esp uncom...

2011-10-16T21:07:37.005Z

Thanks Sarah -- I know the bookplate not esp uncommon, in fact you see it around and there may be fakes. One made $210 at Mohawk Arms Militaria Auction last year, measuring 4 inches by 3 5/8. It is saleable to foaming nazis, bookplate collectors and collectors of curios. Well underpinned but they can't be sold on Ebay. There is also a bookplate for Mussolini by the great bookplate artist Fingesten- I catalogued one thus:- Striking image of Mussolini reading documents with arrogant / anguished expression and in the background a prancing horse on a column and outline of Italy. Signed in pencil by Fingesten. Fingesten (a Jewish Italian who died in the camps) did unauthorised bookplates for famous figures and it can be assumed they were never used by their subjects.

Thanks . I have a bookplate of Hitler, sepia color...

2011-10-16T20:35:51.236Z

Thanks . I have a bookplate of Hitler, sepia colored with swastika eagle and leaf-- it looks right. Any idea of value?