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Publishers of significant works of 20th Century History for all readers, students, & scholars
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THE DE VALERA DECEPTION ISBN978-1-936274-08-6 / e-book ISBN 978-1-936274-09-3 • Hardcover
$ 23.95 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. |
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A CRATE OF VODKA 978-1-929631-89-6 • Trade Cloth
$ 28.00 JUST PUBLISHED! 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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A DEATH IN WASHINGTON 978-1-929631-14-8 • hardcover 2003
$ 29.00 The greatest defector from Stalin's Russia died mysteriously in Washington DC in 1941. His role and importance are explored in detail by Gary Kern. |
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A DEATH IN WASHINGTON 978-1-929631-25-4 • paper 2004
$ 18.00 The greatest defector from Stalin's Russia died mysteriously in Washington DC in 1941. His role and importance are explored in detail by Gary Kern. |
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Alphabet of Masks 978-1-936274-35-2 •
$ 19.00 In the heady days of perestroika in the Soviet Union, when anything and everything seemed possible, young Dmitri Birman started a business in Gorky. He also wrote poetry that was consistently rejected by Soviet censors. Today, he is a prize-winning poet, successful businessman, and a respected politician. Alphabet of Masks, a collection of short stories and poems written on his mobile phone, paints a picture of the life of a busy and sensitive man, dealing with wives, girlfriends, travel, and colleagues and reminiscing about lost loves, lost illusions, and lost parents. It is an imaginative foray into the modern-day Russian experience. Birman shows us how today’s Russians straddle their Soviet past and their capitalist future in order to survive. |
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American Police ISBN9781936274109 / e-ISBN9781936274116 • Trade Paper
$ 22.00 From its beginnings in eighteenth-century London, this is the history of the largest urban police departments in the United States and a social portrait of America during the first century of its existence. From the birth of the New York City Police Department in 1845 to the end of World War II each city had its share of crime, murders, vice, drug dealers and addicts.
Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles each had their own history and developed in different ways according to local realities. But in every case each police department had to deal with good and bad cops, Pinkertons, gangsters, revolutionists, politicians, reporters, muckrakers, arsonists, murderers, district attorneys, strikers, labor spies, hanging judges and axe-swinging crusaders as well as every conceivable element of American society high and low. American Police also offers a view of the FBI and its legendary director, J. Edgar Hoover; District Attorney Earl Warren and police commissioners such as Teddy Roosevelt, Stephen J. O’Meara, Richard Enright, Grover Whalen, Louis J. Valentine, August Vollmer and tough cops like Captain William “Clubber” Williams and Johnny “the Boff” Broderick or John Cordes. It is also the history of crime over the course of a century that transformed the United States from a former colony of the British Empire to a powerful and restless nation poised for spectacular growth. |
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AT NAPOLEON'S SIDE IN RUSSIA 978-1-929631-47-6 • Paperback 2009
$ 18.00 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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BALKAN INFERNO 978-1-929631-63-6 • Paperback Publication Winter 2007
$ 26.00 Yugoslavia broke up, or was broken up, and it’s difficult to see it ever coming together again, except perhaps as a common economic zone. Eventually, the countries will enter the European Union. But, until that happens, political discontent over borders and the shake out of ethnic power will be the norm, for nothing has been really resolved. In the Balkans, people are ‘nations’ and nationalism dies very hard. And, when ethnic-cum-religious conflict takes place, all sides believe they are right. |
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BECOMING WINSTON CHURCHILL 978-1-929631-87-2 • Trade Paper
$ 19.00 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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CALCULATED RISK 13 978-1-929631-59-9 •
$ 19.00 From North Africa in 1942 to Italy and the Nazi surrender in 1945, the epic story of the American commander who took Monte Cassino and Rome in 1944.From North Africa in 1942 to Italy and the Nazi surrender in 1945, the epic story of the American commander who took Monte Cassino and Rome in 1944. General Mark W. Clark, a top WWII commander with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, and George S. Patton, Jr., is widely regarded as key to victory in Europe. That view will stand for all time. Calculated Risk is among the best accounts of the military events which he largely shaped. His narrative reveals an insider’s knowledge, and is authoritative in dealing with conditions that are familiar today. |
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