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The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust
Ju?rgen Mattha?us · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 509
Format: Print book
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In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party s chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet territories Alfred Rosenberg. By combining... |
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Call sign Extortion 17 : the shoot-down of SEAL Team Six
Don Brown · Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 295
Format: Print book
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"A Black Hawk Down of the war in Afghanistan, the deadliest day for the U.S. in 12 years of that conflict--and a military investigation that covered up evidence of an inside job by the Taliban. Don Brown, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer stationed at the Pentagon, and former Special... |
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From Mycenae to Homer: A Study in Early Greek Literature and Art
T B L Webster · Routledge, 2014.
Pages: 333
Format: Print book
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This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek 'Dark Ages'), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from... |
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Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders
Renee C. Romano · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. Since then, more than... |
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Black Power 50
Sylviane A Diouf · The New Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United States, the movement spread like wildfire: high school and college youth organized black student unions; educators created black studies... |
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I Actually Wore This: Clothes We Can't Believe We Bought
Tim Coleman · Rizzoli
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of the fashion missteps of otherwise stylish individuals - from celebrities and fashion and media insiders to regular humans. In everyone's closet, there is one article of clothing that truly demonstrates a momentary lapse in fashion judgment. I Actually Wore This is the first... |
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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
Williamson Murray · Princeton University Press
Pages: 616
Format: Print book
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced... |
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Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation
Robert Curvin · Rutgers University Press
Pages: 377
Format: Print book
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For decades, leaders in Newark, New Jersey, have claimed their city is about to return to its vibrant past. How accurate is this prediction? Is Newark on the verge of revitalization? Robert Curvin, who was one of New Jersey's outstanding civil rights leaders, examines the city, chronicling... |
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of
James Bradley · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's... |
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Steven Joseph Ross · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill... |
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The Korean War: An International History
Wada Haruki · ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Pages: 381
Format: Hardcover
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This classic history of the Korean War - from its origins through the armistice - is now available in English for the first time. Wada Haruki, one of the world's leading scholars of the war, has thoroughly revised his definitive study to incorporate new sources and debates. Drawing... |
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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800
Francois-rene Chateaubriand · NYRB Classics
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
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Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneÅL de Chateaubriand's epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. G. Sebald. In this unabridged section of the Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand... |
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Europe since 1989: A History
Philipp Ther · Princeton University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. But it was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago school achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course... |
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