Chronological Period/1930's
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
$18.99 Add to cart“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of f
- Author: Albright, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0062030345
- Language: English
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The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
$20.99 Add to cart“Riveting…An elegantly composed study, important and even timely” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) history of the Third Reich–how Adolf Hitler and a core group of Nazis rose from obscurity to power… [more below]
- Author: Childers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1451651147
- Language: English
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Green Mountain Farm
$20.99 Add to cartIn 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, Elliott Merrick and his wife, Kate, bought a ramshackle farm on a Vermont hillside for $1,000. Merrick, a young writer with a healthy dose of idealism a… [more below]
- Author: Merrick, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0881504351
- Language: English
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II
On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most cru- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531331
- Language: English
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Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
$22.99 Add to cartThis “elegant and sobering” (New York Times) history reveals how Germany’s fractured republic gave way to the Third Reich, from the breakthrough of the Nazi party to the rise of Hitler
Amid the ravages
- Author: Fritzsche, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1541697456
- Language: English
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Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador DalÃ, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and Their Frie
$29.93 Add to cartParis on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s. The decade was marked by violence at home and the rise of Hitler abroad, even as glamour prevailed in fashion and Sur… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1538121794
- Language: English
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The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow F.D.R.
$19.99 Add to cart“Fascinating and alarmingly true.”–Time Magazine. The true story of a plot to overthrow Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the nearly forgotten Marine who saved American Democracy.
Many simply don’t know- Author: Archer, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1632203588
- Language: English
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Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAngela’s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt’s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I ma- Series: Frank McCourt Memoirs
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0684874350
- Language: English
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The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
$39.95 Add to cartBased on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff d… [more below]
- Author: Medoff, Rafael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0827614705
- Language: English
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The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
$20.99 Add to cartThis is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign a
- Author: Plant, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805006001
- Language: English
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The Wit & Wisdom of FDR
$13.99 Add to cartIn Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, the premier collection of noted sayings, Mark Twain is the only American with more citations under his name than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was the greatest raco
- Author: Humes, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231487
- Language: English
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
$45.00 Add to cartA “breathtakingly magisterial” account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian (Wall Street Journal)
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a w… [more below]- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0465066984
- Language: English
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
$40.99 Add to cartAuthor of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison A… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190243678
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
$21.99 Add to cartIn The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation’s most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Deale
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0060936428
- Language: English
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The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
$28.95 Add to cartMany documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have … [more below]
- Author: Caver, Joseph D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1588382443
- Language: English
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The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
$21.99 Add to cartNamed one of Book Riot’s BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022
The “devastatingly affecting and moving” true story of a courageous school principal who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to sa- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1541751183
- Language: English
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No Promises in the Wind
$9.99 Read moreFrom the Newbery Award-winning author of Across Five Aprils and Up a Road Slowly comes a tale of a brave young man’s struggle to find his own strength during the Great Depression.
“A powerfully moving- Author: Hunt, Irene
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0425099695
- Language: English
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
$24.99 Add to cart“Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece th
- Author: Friedlander, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0060930489
- Language: English
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Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
$28.32 Add to cart“Olmsted’s vivid, accomplished narrative really belongs to the historiography of the left… as her strong research shows, race and gender prejudice informed or deformed, almost the whole of American … [more below]
- Author: Olmsted, Kathryn S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1620973065
- Language: English
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Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of a N.A. Salvage Tug
$30.00 Add to cartThe hair-raising rescue missions of a deep-sea salvage tug that saved hundreds of lives during two decades of service in the North Atlantic.
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1585742406
- Language: English
