BOHUSZ-SZYSZKO Zygmunt - Atomic conflagration. A fantasy novel [first edition London 1956].

London 1956; Griffin Publications LTD. Series: Books for All, Volume I of the first series. 12.5x18.5 cm, pp. 248, publisher's hardcover with wrapper. Good condition (minor edgewear and soiling of the wrapper, ownership entry and pasted postage stamp on the title page, stamp of the Polish Knowledge Society in Adelaide on the front pastedown).

First edition. Wrapper designed by Wladyslaw R. Szomanski.

Novel "(...) about a war that "hangs" like a menacing memento over a world incapable of opposing the partitionist policy of the Soviets, even at the moment ... when these are preparing to make a final strike. The action of the novel begins with the attack of Soviet nuclear weapons on Britain and the United States. From that moment on, events rush by at hurricane speed, and the stunned reader experiences them like some nightmare dream. But even in the midst of the horrors of nuclear war, the eternal law of love triumphs, which, appearing at the climax, is like the first ray of sunshine, and is seemingly a harbinger of an auspicious turn of events that must eventually lead - albeit through harsh experiences - to the defeat of the Kremlin's rulers." [publisher's note]