Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Defying Hitler: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartWritten in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner’s memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 190
- Author: Haffner, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421133
- Language: English
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Heinrich Himmler
$37.99 Add to cartHeinrich Himmler was an unremarkable looking man. Yet he was Hitler’s top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longeric… [more below]
- Author: Longerich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0199651744
- Language: English
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Franz Jagerstatter: Letters and Writings from Prison
$27.00 Add to cartFranz Jgersttter, an Austrian farmer, a devoted husband and father, and a devout Catholic, was executed in 1943 as a result of his refusal to serve in the Nazi army. Before taking this stand Jgersttte
- Author: Putz, Erna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1570758263
- Language: English
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Spiked Boots: Sketches of the North Country
$23.99 Add to cartIn the days of log drives on the rivers of New England, whenever a riverman was killed on the drive, his comrades hung his spiked boots on a tree to mark the spot. As a youth, Robert Pike spotted such… [more below]
- Author: Pike, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 088150436X
- Language: English
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
$18.99 Add to cartA national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.When we think o… [more below]
- Author: Kolata, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0743203984
- Language: English
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Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris
$51.99 Add to cartFrom his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overg
- Author: Kershaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: April 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320359
- Language: English
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Modigliani
$20.00 Add to cartIn endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Krystof, Doris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836503670
- Language: English
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Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult
$24.95 Read moreAleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influenc
- Author: Spence, Richard B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1932595333
- Language: English
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Pistols and Politics: Feuds, Factions, and the Struggle for Order in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810-1935
$39.95 Add to cartIn Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana’s Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition
- Author: Hyde, Samuel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0807169277
- Language: English
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
$22.99 Add to cartIn the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers,
- Author: Lasalle, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0312284314
- Language: English
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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
$21.99 Add to cartNew in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey’s life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of con… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0195393090
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver: A Life
$34.95 Add to cartNearly every American can cite at least one of the accomplishments of George Washington Carver. The many tributes honoring his contributions to scientific advancement and black history include a natio
- Series: Southern Biography
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: February 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177199
- Language: English
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Lost Bar Harbor
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue the simple life on a grand scale. Eighty-six … [more below]
- Author: Helfrich, G. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1608936023
- Language: English
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Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley
$34.95 Add to cartA rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more
The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of dia- Author: Kaczynski, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1556438990
- Language: English
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Hershey: Milton S. Hershey’s Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
$19.99 Add to cartExtensively researched and vividly written by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael D’Antonio, Hershey is the fascinating story of the unique American visionary Milton S. Hershey.The name Hershey… [more below]
- Author: D’Antonio, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 074326410X
- Language: English
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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius
$24.00 Add to cartOn the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act taking effect comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system and helped inspire The Great Gatsby.
“[Batchelor] makes this- Author: Batchelor, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1635767385
- Language: English
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis
$25.00 Add to cart“The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities…. Not only was an influential s… [more below]
- Author: Sutton, Antony C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 29 2010
- ISBN10: 1905570279
- Language: English
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Nestor Makhno–Anarchy’s Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921
$24.95 Add to cartAvailable for the first time in English, here’s the gripping story of Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno. With his usual wit and engaging style, Skirda chronicles the life of a legend and the insurgent
- Author: Skirda, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1902593685
- Language: English
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Sunburst
$41.95 Add to cartThis acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning work, Kaigun, illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific w… [more below]
- Author: Peattie, Estate Of Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 159114664X
- Language: English
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To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
$18.00 Add to cartBorn to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, and journalist. Wells’s refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be la
- Author: Bay, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 080901646X
- Language: English
