Chronological Period/1930's
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$14.99 Add to cartEdith R pke, her seven siblings, and their mother have learned to be silent and live inconspicuously….
It is 1939. On the cusp of World War II, the city of Bremen holds its breath with quiet unease.
- Author: Wilson, Cecelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1633732533
- Language: English
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If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
$19.99 Read moreFor fans of Man in the High Castle and other tales of alternative history, explosive, thought-provoking “what-if” stories about Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Hitler, the Battle of Britain, and more
What if St- Author: Showalter, Dennis E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1616085460
- Language: English
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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice
$21.99 Add to cartLike most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Simonson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138711
- Language: English
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
$21.00 Add to cartBestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controver… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Nicholson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 1416572465
- Language: English
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Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. LONG AGO IN FRA… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671755145
- Language: English
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
$49.99 Add to cart“A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time.” –J. Anthony Lukas
“[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 866
- Publish Date: May 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328619
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4: 1931-1935
$32.50 Add to cartThe penultimate volume of Woolf’s diaries details the mature period of The Years and moments of personal sadness brought by the deaths of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. “A book of ex… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #4
- Author: Bell, Anne O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: December 19 1983
- ISBN10: 0156260395
- Language: English
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Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal
$19.95 Add to cartAnyone with an interest in national parks or the history of the state of Virginia or travelers to Shenandoah or Skyline Drive will appreciate this book. –Rachel Owens, Library Journal
For fifteen yea
- Author: Eisenfeld, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803238304
- Language: English
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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes
$20.00 Add to cartA powerful wartime saga recounting the extraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
“More than a combat story . . . it’s also the st- Author: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0767909135
- Language: English
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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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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
$14.99 Add to cartFilled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book by an award-winning author looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social
- Author: Blumenthal, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250034272
- Language: English
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Himmler’s Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race
$38.95 Add to cartThe compelling story of a trek across an exotic land-and the sinister consequences
It was an SS mission led by two complex individuals-one who was using the Nazis to pursue his own ends, and one so com
- Author: Hale, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0471262927
- Language: English
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Secret History of the IRA
$36.99 Add to cartFilled with disclosures and based on the author’s unprecedented access to the Irish Republican Army, this explosive book sparked controversy when it was first published in hardcover. Delving deeply in
- Author: Moloney, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0393325024
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$42.99 Add to cartFDR became an American icon. The hundreds of photos in Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from the collections of the FDR presidential library, portray him throughout his life and career,
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Gilmore, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1683369815
- Language: English
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Colossus: The Turbulent, Thrilling Saga of the Building of Hoover Dam
$21.00 Add to cartAs breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America’s most awe-inspiring, if dubious, achievements. This epic story of the dam–from conception to design to construction–by… [more below]
- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 141653217X
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII
$19.99 Add to cartA timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy–using
- Author: Young, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0062936743
- Language: English
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John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks’ Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936
$29.95 Add to cart“Paul Maccabee’s John Dillinger Slept Here is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of local history I have ever read — about any city an
- Series: Minnesota
- Author: Maccabee, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513169
- 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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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
$23.00 Add to cartMonths before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler–prime architect of the Holocaust–designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small numbe… [more below]
- Author: Helm, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307278719
- Language: English
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Hoodoo
$7.99 Read moreTwelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher was born into a family with a rich tradition of practicing folk magic: hoodoo, as most people call it. But even though his name is Hoodoo, he can’t seem to cast a simple… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Ronald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 544935616
- Language: English
