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From 1917 on, Feder studied financial politics and economics on his own after developing a hostility towards wealthy bankers during World War I and wrote a "manifesto on breaking the shackles of interest" ("Brechung der Zinsknechtschaft") in 1919. This was soon followed by the founding of a "task force" dedicated to those goals that demanded a nationalisation of all banks and an abolition of interest.Feder proposes ideas and solutions to problems which not only affected Germany at the time but could apply to any nation today.Originally published in 1919, this translated manifesto is a must read for anyone interested in history or economics.

'Of all the war stories I have read, truth or fiction, this is the best' - Ottawa Journal'...a cracking good story' - Globe & Mail¿¿'Green Beach has blown the lid off one of the Second World War's best-kept secrets' Daily Express'If I had been aware of the orders given to the escort to shoot him rather than let him be captured, I would have cancelled them immediately' Lord Mountbatten'Green Beach is a vivid, moving and at times nerve-racking reconstruction of an act of outstanding but horrific heroism' Sunday ExpressIn 1942 radar expert Jack Nissenthall volunteered for a suicidal mission to join a combat team who were making a surprise landing at Dieppe in occupied France. His assignment was to penetrate a German radar station on a cliff above "Green Beach". Because Nissenthall knew the secrets of British and US radar technology, he was awarded a personal bodyguard of sharpshooters. Their orders were to protect him, but in the event of possible capture lo kill him. .His choice was to succeed or die. The story of what happened to him and his bodyguards in nine hours under fire is one of World War II's most terrifying true stories of personal heroism.

The situation was not uncommon. A teenage boy takes up with the wrong crowd and begins running wild on the streets of New York City. His behavior degenerates from petty thefts and vandalism to much more serious crimes. His frustrated parents believe that the only solution to save their son is to send him to live with his uncle. The only problem is that this is the 1930s and the uncle lives in Germany. Seventeen year old Willie Kuhn is about is about to take up with the wrong crowd again. This crowd, however, wears swastikas.

Une bande d'enfants du nord de l'État de New York vit une série d'aventures sur fond d'après-guerre.Le jeune Jerry Antil a toujours été un citadin. Aussi, lorsqu'en 1948 lui et sa famille - sa mère, son père boulanger le gros Mike et ses frères Mike et Dick - quittent la ville de Cortland, dans l'État de New York, pour s'installer à la campagne, il réalise qu'il va devoir s'adapter. Heureusement, Jerry, comme tous ceux qui ont grandi pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, est un garçon débrouillard qui sait tirer parti de n'importe quelle situation. Et grâce à son père, Jerry sait que, pour peu qu'on y prête attention, beaucoup d'aventures nous attendent, qu'importe où l'on se trouve. Avec un groupe d'enfants sur la même longueur d'ondes, Jerry forme le club de lecture de Pompey Hollow. Ils ne tardent pas à trouver l'aventure partout autour d'eux, qu'ils recherchent un groupe de voleurs entrés par effraction dans les commerces locaux ou tentent de sauver un troupeau de volailles innocentes d'une fin macabre à Thanksgiving. Se présentant comme une série d'histoires distinctes, le flux du récit ressemble davantage à un roman qu'à un recueil de nouvelles. Les personnages sont bien développés, surtout les enfants. Le style est simple mais efficace. L'humour est plus loufoque que spirituel, mais seuls les coeurs endurcis ne riront pas au moins une fois. Le roman se montre parfois un peu mielleux, mais n'en reste pas moins franc et sincère. Les passages les plus touchants décrivent la relation de Jerry avec son incroyable père, qui lui transmet un sens aigu de la morale ainsi que le goût de l'aventure. L'auteur insiste de manière convaincante sur l'idée que grandir en temps de guerre eut un effet profond sur l'attitude des enfants et leur vision des choses, leur permettant entre autres de tirer le meilleur parti de toute situation.Un récit sincère sur l'enfance à l'ombre de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

About the BookFor five decades The Navajo Code Talkers has achieved attention and acclaim from well-respected sources. First published in 1973 over 50,000 copies have been sold to date. The book has been profiled on the ABC Nightly News and the CBS series, "An American Portrait.""The Navajo Code Talkers" is the single most comprehensive account of the contribution of the Navajo Native Americans in World War II... Highly recommended!-Bookwatch"It is perhaps the best and most complete story of the code talkers yet published."-Benis S. Frank, U.S. Marine Corps chief historian"...a book that should be in every patriotic home..."-Gallup New Mexico Independent"...[an] interesting account of that group of Marines who contributed so much to the cause of peace and freedom."-President Richard M. Nixon"Its light, warm, human interest reading is a welcomed relief..."-Marine Corps Gazette"...an out of the ordinary war story..."-The Maui News"...a delightful reading experience as well as a special contribution to the pages of history."-The Journal of Arizona History"...delightful reading for the soldier and civilian alike... [it is] well-balanced in service humor, pride in country and devotion to duty..."-Lloyd R. Moses, Director of the Institute of Indian Studies- Matthew Dowd, Senior Political Analyst for MSNBC News

Why I wrote this BookI became interested in writing about the Vietnam War from my own perspective when I saw TV documentaries showing marines and some army soldiers indiscriminately burning Vietnamese thatch houses, destroying livestock and capturing old men, women and children. Those documentaries give a negative impression to the American public, that all American soldiers did that. This book is to tell the readers from my own personal combat experiences, that there were American soldiers and ARVN Rangers who fought and died courageously against the Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese Army soldiers without harming old men, women or children. On my tour of duty from 1966 to 1967, my recon platoon, my 4th/12th Battalion, my 199th Brigade and the gallant South Vietnamese Black Panther Rangers that fought and died beside us, did not burn any thatch houses or shoot any innocent civilians.

Do you feel a bit like Indiana Jones, or as a good romantic do you prefer the English Sherlock Holmes style?In short, are you ready to become that detective you always wanted to study and analyze maps and old codes?To search and locate around Europe the traces of that enormous loot that to this day seems to have disappeared into thin air following the ruinous fall of Nazism and fascism?Well, in case of an affirmative answer you are in the right place, indeed, in the right book. Here you will find lots of data, maps, directions, tips and everything you need to know about where to go, what to look for and what to do once you find it... Let the wonderful adventure begin!

El verdadero relato de la prisión más famosa de la historiaEn un imponente castillo gótico situado en la cima de una colina, en el corazón de la Alemania nazi, un variopinto grupo de oficia les aliados pasó la segunda guerra mundial intentando escapar de sus captores nazis.Durante cuatro años estos prisioneros pusieron a prueba los muros de Colditz con ingeniosos intentos de fuga que se convertirían en leyenda. Pero, como demuestra Macintyre, la verdadera historia fue aún más sorprendente. Los reclusos representaban una sociedad en miniatura, llena de héroes y traidores, con conflictos de clases y alianzas secretas, y toda la gama de la alegría y la desesperación humanas. Los nombres más famosos de Colditz comparten espacio con personajes menos conocidos, desde los elitistas miembros del Club Bullingdon hasta el paracaidista estadounidense reconocido como el agente secreto menos exitoso de su país.Combinando la intriga de la época y agudos retratos psicológicos de sus exitosos relatos de espías de la vida real, Macintyre ha insuflado nueva vida a uno de los mejores episodios de guerra jamás contados. Profundamente investigado, lleno de increíbles historias humanas, y con la maestría narrativa de Macintyre, este es el libro definitivo sobre el castillo de Colditz.

To Die In Jerusalem is a novel that delves into the heart of the conflict between American diaspora Jews and the right-wing government of Israel. Morris Gruenwald is eight years old and living in the Kisvarda (Hungary) when the Jews of the town are sent to the death camp at Auschwitz. There, he watches his mother and younger sister marched off to the gas chamber. He survives and is smuggled to the shores of Palestine, evading the British blockade. He is sent to a kibbutz and fights in the 1948 war. Morris believes that his entire family is dead and that his future lies in Israel. He fights again in Israel's various wars against the Arabs - in Suez in 1956 and in Jerusalem in 1967. A random photograph of him praying at the newly-liberated Western Wall in 1967 is seen by his aunt, who left Kisvarda for the United States. His family brings him to America, where he becomes a pro-Israel Senator until an increasingly right-wing Israeli government and the feelings of his grandchildren bring him to the realization that he can no longer support an anti-democratic regime.

The first volume of Ted Grant's Writings. It covers the period from 1938-42, when he was involved in building up the forces of Trotskyism in Britain, and emerged as the principal theoretician of the British Trotskyist movement.

It is 1934, and as the storm clouds of war are casting their shadows over the European Continent, the British Isles, and North Africa, Wilmer Plate enters the freshman class at the Crane High School in Crane, Texas. Before and after school, he works at the family dairy. His early years at the dairy instill a fine work ethic and a sense of responsibility. He, also, gains a feel for management, an experience that proves helpful in his role as the aircraft commander of a combat flight crew. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlists in the army and earns an appointment to flight training. Follow him through the rigorous flight and combat training, and experience the adrenaline rushes and gut-wrenching fears with him as he brings his B-24 bomber and its crew home safely thirty-one times.

Anne wrote weekly letters to her parents back in Minnesota, chronicling a familiar yet uncommon wartime story of patriotism, travel, homesickness, army procedures, off-duty high jinks, family bonds, and boredom. Her eye for detail and her easy, candid style make these letters a treasure for those who want to know about the war years -- and for those who remember them all too well.

"Published in 2023 by arrangement Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers."

"All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler's forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away and even starting a clandestine book club. She and her dearest friend never surrender their love of reading, even when Janina is forced into the newly formed ghetto. As Warsaw creeps closer toward liberation, Zofia must fight to save her friend and preserve her culture and community using the only weapon they have left: literature."--

"The story of how a little-known junior senator fought wartime corruption and, in the process, set himself up to become vice president and ultimately President Harry Truman. Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight--all of which opened up opportunities for graft, fraud and corruption. In The Watchdog, Steve Drummond draws the reader into the fast-paced story of how Harry Truman, still a newcomer to Washington politics, cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon, placing Truman in the national spotlight and paving his path to the White House. Drawing on the largely unexamined records of the Truman Committee as well as oral histories, personal letters, newspaper archives and interviews, Steve Drummond--an award-winning senior editor and executive producer at NPR--brings the colorful characters and intrigue of the committee's work to life. The Watchdog provides readers with a window to a time that was far from perfect but where it was possible to root out corruption and hold those responsible to account. It shows us what can be possible if politicians are governed by the principles of their office rather than self-interest"--

"The first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the secret ten-day parlay in Morocco where FDR, Churchill, and their divided high command hammered out a winning strategy at the tipping point of World War II. The Devils Will Get No Rest is a character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, an Anglo-American clash over military strategy that produced a winning plan when World War II could have gone either way. Churchill called it the most important Allied conclave of the war. Until now, it has never been explored in a full-length book. In a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone, protected by British marines and elite American troops, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton Jr., Sir Alan Brooke, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Sir Harold Alexander, and their military peers questioned each other's competence, doubted each other's vision, and argued their way through choices that could win or lose the war. You will be treated to a master class in strategy by the legendary statesmen, generals, and admirals who overcame their differences, transformed their alliance from a necessity to a bond, forged a war-winning plan, and glimpsed the postwar world"--

"Inspired by true events, Women of the Post brings to life the heroines who proudly served in the all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps in WWII, finding purpose in their mission and lifelong friendship. 1944, New York City. Judy Washington is tired of having to work at the Bronx Slave Market, cleaning white women's houses for next to nothing. She dreams of a bigger life, but with her husband fighting overseas, it's up to her and her mother to earn enough for food and rent. When she's recruited to join the Women's Army Corps--offering a steady paycheck and the chance to see the world--Judy jumps at the opportunity. During training, Judy becomes fast friends with the other women in her unit--Stacy, Bernadette and Mary Alyce--who all come from different cities and circumstances. Under Second Officer Charity Adams's leadership, they receive orders to sort over one million pieces of mail in England, becoming the only unit of Black women to serve overseas during WWII. The women work diligently, knowing that they're reuniting soldiers with their loved ones through their letters. However, their work becomes personal when Mary Alyce discovers a backlogged letter addressed to Judy. Told through the alternating perspectives of Judy, Charity and Mary Alyce, Women of the Post is an unforgettable story of perseverance, female friendship and self-discovery"--

"In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancâe in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle. After D-Day, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dorothy, and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope, which becomes more precarious by the day, is for all three of them to survive the war intact."--

"Three missions. Two cities. One shot to win the war. October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next: Deliver a package of forbidden biological material. Assassinate a high-ranking German operative whose knowledge of invasion plans could turn the tide of the war against the Allies. Rescue a British agent who once saved Kate's life--and get out. Kate will encounter sheiks and spies, poets and partisans, as she races to keep up with the constantly shifting nature of her assignment, showing every ounce of her Oregonian grit in the process. New York Times bestselling author Cara Black has crafted another heart-stopping thrill ride that reveals a portrait of Paris at the height of the Nazi occupation"--

This book presents a collection of annotated English translations of German diplomatic documents-including telegrams, dispatches and reports-sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the German Ambassador in Hankou, China, by German diplomatic officials in Nanjing, and detailing Japanese atrocities and the conditions in and around Nanjing during the early months of 1938. The author visited the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) and the German Foreign Ministry Archives (Auswartiges Amt Archiv) in Berlin, where these documents are currently archived, in 2008, 2016, and 2017 to locate and retrieve them. These diplomatic documents are of significant value in that they provide both detailed information and wide coverage, from different locations and on various topics. Further, the information offered is unique in a number of ways. First, the events were recorded from the perspective of Germans, citizens of a country that was a close ally of Japan, and second, these documents are not included in any other source. As such, these archival primary sources represent an invaluable addition to the research literature on the Nanjing Massacre and will undoubtedly benefit researchers and scholars for generations to come. 

Translation of: Escape artist: the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world.