xix 296 pages, includes glossary, index, illustrated with black and white photos, in slipcase. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. "The secret diaries of a twenty-three-year-old White Russian princess who worked in the German Foreign Office from 1940 to 1944 and then as a nurse, these pages give us a unique picture of wartime life in that sector of German society from which the 20th of July Plot -- the conspiracy to kill Hitler -- was born." (goodreads)