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World War II
GRADES 6–12: Mark Twain’s World War II History Book focuses on bringing to light the decisions and events that led to and were a part of the second world war. 6th—12th grade students strengthen their world history knowledge as well as creative and organizational skills through interactive learning. WHAT'S INCLUDED: This 128-page student book features a reading selection for each lesson with background information on important people and events, as well as an Activity page and a Recalling Key Details page. The Activity pages feature graphic organizers that allow students to display and organize information in creative ways. The Recalling Key Details pages focus on developing reading com...
The New German Reichschancellery in Berlin, 1938-1945
This book carefully examines the New German Reichschancellery Professor Albert Speer designed and built in Berlin, like no ther book on the subject. With hundreds of crisp, full-color and black & white photographs and maps, ?Reichschancellery? shows readers this amazing German building during each phase of its construction and existence. Architect Albert Speer?s opportunity to design and build the New German Reichschancellery in 1938 was the professional commission of a lifetime. A huge park-like setting along the south side of an entire city block in the government quarter of Berlin was made available, and Speer was given a ?blank check? and instructed to create an ?impressive? structure. T...
The End of Victory Culture
"Sets out to trace the vicissitudes of America's self-image since World War ll as they showed up in popular culture: war toys, war comics, war reporting, and war films. It succeeds brilliantly ... Engelhardt's prose is smart and smooth, and his book is social and cultural history of a high order." Boston Globe, from the bookjacket.
Finland's War of Choice
A selection of the Military Book Club: “A solid operational analysis” from “an established scholar of the Scandinavian theater” (Publishers Weekly). This book describes the odd coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. In stark contrast to the numerous books on the shorter and less bloody Winter War, which represented a gallant fight of a democratic “David” against a totalitarian “Goliath” and caught the imagination of the world, the story of Finland fighting alongside a Goliath of its own has not brought pride to that nation and was a period many Finns would rather forget. A prologue brings the reader up to s...
Sons and Soldiers
New York Times bestseller. The definitive story of the Ritchie Boys, as featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes. “A spellbinding account of extraordinary men at war.” —USA Today They were young Jewish boys who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe and resettled in America. After the United States entered the war, they returned to fight for their adopted homeland and for the families they had left behind. Their stories tell the tale of one of the U.S. Army’s greatest secret weapons. These young men—known as the Ritchie Boys, after the Maryland camp where they trained—knew what the Nazis would do to them if they were captured. Yet they leapt at the opportunity to be sent in small, elite teams t...
Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919
An innovative study of the pre-history of the League of Nations, tracing the pro-League movement's unexpected development.
