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SALAZAR
by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses
The definitive political biography of a key Portuguese political leader who left his mark on European and world history: Salazar ruled Portugal while playing an important role in world affairs and yet he remains a largely unknown figure to the rest of the world. This book is now the main reference point that fills that gap.
Follow the link to an interview on Portuguese television:
http://tv1.rtp.pt/noticias/?t=Publicada-nos-Estados-Unidos-biografia-de-Salazar.rtp&headline=20&visual=9&tm=8&article=291276 
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The First Iraq War 1914-1918
by A.J. Barker
July 2009 When the war began, victory seemed assured as British forces easily secured the head of the Persian Gulf, a move mainly designed to protect British oil interests. The British commanding general then decided to march on to Baghdad, but his effort fell short and he was defeated at Ctesiphon and forced to retreat to Kut where the Ottoman army cut him to pieces. The British had to reorganize and by the time they swept the Turks out of Mesopotamia, they had suffered 100,000 casualties and spent the colossal sum of 350 million pounds sterling by 1918. The Ottoman army was forced to evacuate Baghdad and Enver Pasha lost Mesopotamia. As distinguished author Colonel A.J. Barker notes, the campaign began and ended under the handicap of unnecessary strategic goals, but while it was also ill conceived and ill directed it saw nevertheless some of the most courageous and tragic soldiering of the First World War.
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Becoming Winston Churchill
by Michael McMenamin & Curt J. Zoller
Announcing the first paperback edition of
Becoming Winston Churchill The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
Winston Churchill was only 20 when he met the man whom he credited, more than any other, with shaping him as a statesman and an orator, one whose voice and political courage would save his country and the world during their darkest hour. As Churchill once wrote:
“I regard his as the biggest and most original mind I have ever met. When I was a young man, he instantly gained my confidence and I feel that I owe the best things in my life to him.”
That man was Bourke Cockran, a charismatic Irish-born Democratic Congressman from New York City, acclaimed by his peers as the greatest orator in the Gilded Age of politics. Following the death of Winston’s father, Lord Randolph, in 1895, Cockran, who was a widower, became the lover of Churchill’s mother, the beautiful American-born heiress Jennie Jerome, who persuaded Cockran to take her son under his wing.
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Hitler’s Intelligence Chief
by Reinhard R. Doerries
July 2009
THE FINAL COLLAPSE OF THE THIRD REICH AND THE SECRET INITIATIVES OF A KEY NAZI OFFICIAL
Hitler’s Intelligence Chief Walter Schellenberg
The Man Who Kept Germany’s Secrets With His Autobiography written in 1945
Introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg (Author of A World At Arms and Hitler’s Foreign Policy 1933-1939)
Adolf Hitler's chief of foreign intelligence, SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg, was a cultured and highly educated Nazi functionary driven by relentless ambition and ruthless pursuit of his goals. Surviving the vicious internecine struggles within the SS hierarchy, he became a close intelligence and foreign policy advisor to the murderous Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, whom he served and feared until the very end. A law degree, a high level of professional engagement, and a personal relationship with Heinrich Himmler, the much feared head of the SS and German Police, helped ensure the rise of Walter Schellenberg. Head of SS Foreign Intelligence since 1942, Schellenberg was among the few to predict the dramatic collapse of Hitler’s regime and Germany’s military defeat at an early stage of World War II. Using his close contact with Himmler, he managed through the harrowing final months of the conflict to free large numbers of Jews and other concentration camp inmates by transporting them to safety in Sweden. In doing so he saved many lives.
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NOC
by Nicholas Anderson
"A must read for fans of espionage!" The Daily Beast
"The real thing, gets better every time. I can't put it down!" Google Review
"Five Stars!" Review Scout
“Intelligence ends with the first shot fired. Real Intelligence much more resembles a fascinating chess game, much complicated by the fact that the figures and their positions are not known to the players…”
—Victor Sheymov former KGB officer who defected to the United States
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The new thriller by Nicholas Anderson sheds light on top secret operations that took place in the 1980s and ‘90s. The title NOC stands for “Non-Official Cover” that accurately describes the kind of “black” operations the author was involved in. Unable to secure permission to publish as non-fiction, and treading on the very thin ice of the Official Secrets Act, Anderson decided to fictionalize what really happened to him in various missions behind the old Iron Curtain, the Middle East, and Africa, but also in the Bronx, NY, chasing IRA gunmen ready to kill. Action packed at every page!
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A Crate of Vodka
by Alfred Kokh and Igor Svinarenko
JUST PUBLISHED! First time in English! A New Exciting Book From Enigma
These are just some of the names that appear in this book:
Yuri Andropov, Lavrenty Beria, Leonid Brezhnev, Iosif Brodsky, Konstantin Chernenko, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ernest Hemingway, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Vladimir Nabokov, Augusto Pinochet, Yevgeny Primakov, Vladimir Putin, Valentin Rasputin, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Andrei Sakharov, Eduard Shevardnadze, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Soros, Joseph Stalin, Leo Tolstoy, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Zhirinovsky …among many others
The English translation of the Russian bestseller, A Crate of Vodka will be launched at the Book Expo America trade show at the Javits Center in New York on May 29, 2009. The authors are both protagonists of the last 20 years of events and transformations that have rocked both the West and Russia since the Soviet Union was dissolved and recast into a dynamic new State that the world must acknowledge.
“Brezhnev died in 1982, and in 2001 terrorists bombed New York and Washington. In between, in 1991, a great empire collapsed. All those events fit into our slice of time, exactly twenty years, like vodka bottles in a crate.”
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THE CICERO SPY AFFAIR
by RICHARD WIRES
NOW AVAILABLE! THE GREATEST SPY OF THE 20th CENTURY IN A CLASSIC ACCOUNT BY A MAJOR SCHOLAR! Intrigue, mystery, greed… The valet of the British ambassador to Ankara in 1943 was an enterprising young man who understood he could steal and photograph vitally important documents of great interest to the Nazi war machine…
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AT NAPOLEON'S SIDE IN RUSSIA
by Armand de Caulaincourt
The eyewitness account of the retreat of Napoleon's army after the disastrous invasion of Russia by the Emperor's closest confidant. Napoleon's return from the disaster of his armies in Russia by a close eyewitness. Caulaincourt spent many days in the stagecoach facing the emperor as he slept, drank and talked an experience he committed to paper as they went through Russia and Germany
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HITLER'S TABLE TALK 1941-1944
by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Hitler's private thoughts in his nightly monologs to a captive audience of insiders.
New Foreword by Gerhard L. Weinberg Preface by Hugh Trevor-Roper
This new edition of the only complete record of Hitler’s private thoughts and plans in his nighttime monologs with his closest entourage adds new and previously unavailable materials and documents from various archives collected and commented by Gerhard L. Weinberg. The original text of the record kept and annotated by Martin Bormann.
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The Kravchenko Case
by Gary Kern
Author of A Death in Washington
"This thoughtful and meticulously researched book is far more than a biography. It is also a wide-ranging study of Soviet-American relations, World War II, the Cold War, Western fellow-traveling, and the Western reception of defectors. Kern embeds Kravchenko's life in a thoroughly explored political and historical context."
Paul Hollander /The New Criterion
Based on the private, unpublished papers of Victor Kravchenko, never before available to researchers and historians; hundreds of FBI documents won after a six-year lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act; and extensive interviews with the defector's sons and associates, The Kravchenko Case tells the story of a man who broke away from the closed Soviet society, defected to America, and then waged a one-man war against Stalin’s dictatorial regime.
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ROOSEVELT AND HOPKINS
by Robert E. Sherwood
New Edition. Foreign shipping add $17.00.
FDR was president for twelve tumultuous years and this is the record of his actions and decisions mostly on foreign policy during WWII in a gripping and exhaustive account by White House insider, speechwriter and playwrite Robert Sherwood. This book remains the indispensable record of U.S. foreign policy during the Second World War.
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