Germany, Third Reich. The Hitler Youth

Hardcover, black cloth cover, the text on the front cover and the spine in gold-colored ink, entitled "The Hitler Youth" by David Littlejohn, M.A., A.L.A. and assisted by Harry Hinds, copyrighted in 1988 by Agincourt Publishers, printed in the United States of America by The R.L. Bryan Company of Columbia, South Carolina, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 87073304, ISBN 0-934870-21-7. The context of the book is stated on the title page: "A history of the Hitler Youth both in Germany and abroad and of the non-German youth movements which collaborated with it. Organization, structure, uniforms, flags, insignia." It begins with a Table of Contents, followed by an Introduction. The book is divided into thirty-five chapters: 1. History of the Hitler Youth; 2. Organizational Structure; 3. Hitler Youth Ranks; 4. Uniforms of the Hitler Youth; 5. Flags and Pennants; 6. Specialist Sections of the Hitler Youth; 7. League of National-Socialist School Students (NSS and NSSi); 8. NS Factory Cell Organization; 9. National-Socialist German Students Union; 10. NSDSt.B Langemarck Scholarship; 11. National Political Educational Institutes; 12. NPEA Reichsschulen; 13. Adolf Hitler Schools; 14. NS Deutsche Oberschule Starnbergersee; 15. Leadership Courses; 16. Shooting Courses; 17. Aeronautical Preparatory Technical Schools; 18. Deutsche Jungvolk; 19. Bund Deutscher Mädel & Jungmädel; 20. Sport; 21. Camps and Foreign Visits; 22. National Vocational Contest; 23. Honour Badges & Awards; 24. "Day" and Donation Badges; 25. Daggers and Knives; 26. Hitler Youth at War; 27. Miscellaneous Facts and Figures; 28. Documents & Posters; 29. Youth Resistance & Punishment; 30. Unidentified or Partially Identified Items; 31. The Swastika Abroad; 32. The Germanic Landdienst; 33. Central and Eastern Europe; 34. Other Countries. It concludes with a three page Bibliography. The book contains 388 pages of text in English, along with multiple photographs and detailed line drawings, printed in black ink, with a few colour images and insignia interspersed throughout the book, printed in four-color inks, on a coated paper stock, measuring 155 mm (w) x 235 mm (h) x 23 mm (d). It is missing its original dust jacket, however, the cover and the pages within remain pristine. Near extremely fine.