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THE MAFIA AND THE ALLIES
by Ezio Costanzo
Translated by George Lawrence
Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack and the declaration of war on the United States by Germany and Italy, U.S. war plans included the defense of the East Coast and the invasion of Sicily. Ezio Costanzo examines the many elements of this secret scenario, which included long-suppressed information about cooperation between the Mafia and the U.S. Army. The results came in the aftermath of the invasion, during the new military government that gave many Mafia leaders important administrative positions. Seen from an Italian standpoint, the success of U.S. forces is examined in detail and many questions are finally answered. 
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THE NAZI PARTY 1919 - 1945
by Dietrich Orlow
The only existing complete history of the Nazi Party from 1919, when Adolf Hitler took control of a small right-wing worker’s political association mostly made up of unemployed lower middle class veterans, to the giant political party known as the NSDAP that ruled Germany, intolerant of any competition from 1933 to 1945. Orlow’s book explains the mechanism and the methods, including the anti-Semitic pogroms such as Kristallnacht, which allowed the Nazis to seize and hold on to absolute power.
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THE FIRST IRAQ WAR 1914-1918
by A.J. Barker
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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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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The Italian Brothers
by Paolo Mastrolilli
The powerful story of a generation…
Two brothers in the Italian army were fighting in the same war. One in the navy and the other in the “bersaglieri” until they finally and miraculously reunite….
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Code Name: “Kalistrat”
by Arno Baker
"An expertly informed treatment of the Rosenberg case, using fiction to fill in the shadowy places where our imagination wants to go."
-----Gary Kern
author of : A Death in Washington and The Kravchenko Case
With the confession of Morton Sobell in 2008 following the opening of the Grand Jury testimony preceding the trial for conspiracy “of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Morton Sobell and Anatoly Yakovelev,” it would appear that the famous case could at last be put to rest.
But that was not the final word.
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THE DE VALERA DECEPTION
by Michael McMenamin and Patrick McMenamin
In the summer of 1929 Weimar Germany still has a secret military agreement with the USSR to develop new weapons beyond the Ural Mountains. Ultimately, both want to dismember the newly revived independent Poland, but to distract Britain from helping the Poles, the new Irish Free State is placed at risk by conspirators and arms dealers intent on fomenting an IRA coup d’état.
Winston Churchill is about to travel to North America when the Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald asks him to handle a secret assignment. The IRA will secretly buy large quantities of arms in the U.S. and an SIS team will investigate. Churchill is to enlist American President Herbert Hoover to prevent the weapons from reaching Ireland. But Churchill has his own unofficial team gather evidence as well.
Bourke Cockran, Jr., a law professor and former military intelligence agent is the son of Churchill’s old Irish-American mentor. Mattie McGary, Churchill’s god-daughter, works for William Randolph Hearst. Attracted to each other, their tempers often clash as Cockran and Mattie follow a trail from New York to Los Angeles through Canada to discover who is funding the IRA and where the arms are assembled.
But Mattie is also keeping secrets from Cockran who has an agenda of revenge. To kill the leader of the IRA team who is responsible for the murder of his wife in the Irish Civil War. But these plans interfere with foiling the arms shipment and an IRA plot to assassinate Churchill … Time is running out...
The First of a New Series: The Winston Churchill Thrillers. Stay tuned for the upcoming title: The Parsifal Pursuit !
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