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It is May, 1942 and the Nazis, the Japanese and the Italians have invaded the United States homeland. Hitler has not invaded Russia and has conquered Great Britain, isolating America. American forces are stranded in Europe and Southeast Asia. There is a plot in Washington to overthrow FDR and submit to the invading forces.
"A biography of the author of 84 Charing Cross Road"--Cover.
For the first time, a catalogue raisonne of the paintings of Adolf Hitler has been produced. Illustrated in full color and with the history and analysis of Hitler's years as a struggling artist in Linz, Vienna and Munich, this volume separates the wheat from the chaff; with the rise in interest and in prices of Hitler's works in the marketplace and the flood of forgeries that have plagued collectors, scholars and institutions over the decades, Stephen R. Pastore, a renowned art critic and historian has set a new criterion for establishing not only authenticity but a genuine appreciation of the creative impulse of one of history's most important figures.
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Joseph Goebbels, born in 1897, aspired to be an author, obtained a Ph.D from the University of Heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry quickly gained and exerted controlling supervision over the news media, arts, and information in Germany. In 1943, Goebbels began to pressure Hitler to introduce measures that would produce "total war," including closing businesses not essential to the war effort, conscripting women into the labor force, and enlisting men in previously exempt occupations into the Wehrmacht. Hitler finally appointed him as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War on 23 July 1944, whereby Goebbels u...
Rudolf Hoess was the notorious Commandant of Auschwitz. Imprisoned and awaiting execution after the war, Hoess wrote a long memoir, a self- serving account of his life and approaches to management.
Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay’s ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation.
In early 20th century California, two teenage boys help an eccentric inventor get backing and approval for his innovative aircraft.
Following nearly a decade of research, this account solves the mysterious death of biochemist Frank Olson, revealing the identities of his murderers in shocking detail. It offers a unique and unprecedented look into the backgrounds of many former CIA, FBI, and Federal Narcotics Bureau officials—including several who actually oversaw the CIA's mind-control programs from the 1950s to the 1970s. In retracing these programs, a frequently bizarre and always frightening world is introduced, colored and dominated by many factors—Cold War fears, the secret relationship between the nation's drug enforcement agencies and the CIA, and the government's close collaboration with the Mafia.