Cultural Writing. OUT OF THE NIGHT is a gripping memoir of political intrigue in Germany between the wars. A bestseller in 1941, it lays bare a young life filled with idealism and devotion, disillusionment and loss, in a world full of revolutionary promise gone immesurably wrong. Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of maritime--only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade's attempts to kill him. "An exciting, real book without a trace of unnecessary melodrama"--H.G. Wells.