Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs Alias Jan ValtinAK Press, 2004 - 672 pages A 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: . . . full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy . . . It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been. The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920 s and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of maritime, organizing worldwide for the Comintern, only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade s attempts to kill him. As a professional revolutionary, agitator, 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. From his spellbinding 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 a Communist Party fraught with intrigue and subterfuge, Krebs gives an unflinching portrayal of the internal machinations of both parties. Writing at age 36 under the name Jan Valtin, Krebs lays bare a young life filled with idealism and devotion disillusionment and loss in a world full of revolutionary promise gone immeasurably wrong. An exciting, real book without a trace of unnecessary melodrama. H.G.Wells |
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Contents
Lumpenhund | 1 |
Sailors Way | 14 |
Strike Out | 28 |
Smuggling for the Comintern | 39 |
Did You Ever Kill A Man? | 49 |
Scapegoats on the Barricades | 62 |
Red Vagabondage | 77 |
Passage to Conspiracy | 90 |
The Swastika Casts its Shadow | 312 |
Scandinavian Interlude | 325 |
BOOK THREE | 339 |
Storm Signals | 341 |
In the Hurricane | 355 |
Dead Men on Furlough | 370 |
In the Lands of Twilight | 387 |
West of the Rhine | 409 |
Attack the Pacific | 103 |
The Road to Leningrad | 115 |
ΧΙ Courier to the Orient | 128 |
From Shanghai to San Quentin | 139 |
BOOK TWO THE DANCE OF DARKNESS | 157 |
New Weapons | 159 |
The Infallibles | 172 |
Firelei | 185 |
Firelei Makes Her Decision | 199 |
Between the Hammer and the Anvil | 214 |
Soviet Skipper | 230 |
Impotent and Omnipotent | 245 |
The Man Hunters | 257 |
Stalin Over the Seven Seas | 272 |
Inspector General for England | 285 |
How We Engineered Mutinies | 301 |
Death is Easy | 425 |
Captured | 441 |
The Gestapo Questions Me | 458 |
Hell | 486 |
Sign a Confession | 509 |
Of Comrades and the Headsman | 525 |
Man Cage Magic | 541 |
My Battle For Mein Kampf | 565 |
Dark Duel | 587 |
Join the Gestapo | 602 |
Freeman on a Leash | 619 |
Abducted | 635 |
Flight | 655 |
Whos Who 672 | |