A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of the true heroes to emerge during the Nazi occupation of Eu-rope.
The New York Times Bestseller by the Author of A Man Called IntrepidIdeal for fans of Nancy Wake, Virginia Hall, The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum, The Woman Who Smashed Codes, The Wolves at the Door by Judith Pearson, and similar worksShares the story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of HonorWritten by William Stevenson, the only person whom she trusted to write her biographyShe was stunning.
Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921.
More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictators legacy and influence lives on, precisely as he predicted before putting the gun to his head.
No matter who you identify withDemocrat or Republican, Tea Party or Green Party, Independent or something else altogether we the people should read: The Constitution of the United States of America The Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments The Declaration of Independence The Articles of ConfederationTake a moment or two to reflect on the words of our forefathers, as these are the documents literally created America.
So much of the debate about the Second Amendment is in scholarly journals and academic papers written by scholars and judges, or directed towards other scholars, law professors, attorneys, and judges.
Through the lens of a careful assessment of the political views of MIT's Noam Chomsky and Harvard's Alan Dershowitzthe two protagonists of a Cambridge-based feud over the past forty yearsauthor Howard Friel chronicles an American intellectual history from the U.
A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy covers the period from June to August 1944 when the Allies stormed ashore, fought their way through the bocage country of Normandy, and eventually broke out through the Avranches gap.
A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalismVinayak Damodar Savarkar (18831966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India's tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule.
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world.
The long overdue follow-up to Miniters bestselling The Ultimate Mans Survival Guide: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Manhood, this hilarious and colorful guide to surviving the modern office is an absolute must for any man whose instincts are frequently leading him into saying and doing the absolute wrong thing in the workplace.
Pastor and former police officer Philip De Courcy calls on Christians to take refuge in God (Psalm 46:1), drawing on lessons he learned in law enforcement to affirm that true security is not the absense of danger, but the presence of God.
Mortality and Faith is the second half of an autobiography of David Horowitz whose first installment, Radical Son, was published more than twenty years ago.
He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard ofSidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps.
Modern conservatism was born in the crisis of the French Revolution that sought to overturn Christianity, monarchy, tradition, and a trust in experience rather than reason.
Shinto: The Way of the Gods II - The Soul of Japan Between Tradition and PresentDiscover a unique journey into the fascinating world of Shintoism, the oldest religion in Japan, with "e;Shinto: The Way of the Gods II"e;.
Inspired by the old African proverb: When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories.
This authoritative survey of the new radical left forming across Europe offers "e;ammo for the struggles ahead, not to be ignored"e; (Susan Weissman, award-winning journalist and editor of Victor Serge).
Dispatches from a workers' revolt by the Memoirs of a Revolutionary author, "e;one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes"e; (Susan Sontag, winner of the National Book Award).
Zwischen 1940 und 1945 kamen drei Viertel der niederländischen Juden im Holocaust um – ein höherer Anteil als in allen anderen Ländern Nord- und Westeuropas.
