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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.