Death Be Not Proud.

Octavo. Original green boards. Near fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Ambassador David K.E. Bruce "This very sad story- but it is a story of courage too. John Gunther." An attractive bookplate from Staunton Hill Plantation, the estate of David K.E. Bruce. Bruce was US Ambassador to France 1949-52, West Germany (1957-59) and Great Britain (1961-69), playing a leading role in assisting the postwar recovery of Western Europe. Later he was head of the Vietnam Peace Talks, the first head of the Liason Office in Peking, the Ambassador to NATO, buiding a record unsurpassed in the history of American Foreign Service.