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DIARY 1937-1943 1-929631-02-2 • hardcover 2002
$ 38.00 Count Galeazzo Ciano was Mussolini's son in law and foreign minister. He took daily notes throughout his tenure and revealed the darkest secrets of the Nazi and Fascist elite. When the war turned sour for Italy Ciano also tried to change sides and began attempting to take Italy out of the Axis. But his efforts failed and he was eventually shot as a traitor after the fall of Mussolini and the creation of the Republic of Salo in Northern Italy. His diaries are one of the war's greatest single documents. |
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DOUBLE LIVES 978-1-929631-20-9 • paper 2004
$ 19.00 Stalin wanted to destabilize the democracies through the intellectuals. Many were taken in by communist rhetoric and its agents, including Hemingway, Malraux and Lillian Hellman among others. |
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EMPIRE ON THE ADRIATIC 978-1-929631-35-3 • paper 2005
$ 21.00 Mussolini's dream of an Italian empire on the Adriatic turned into a nightmare of occupation, violence and war in the broken Yugoslavia of 1941-43. |
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COLD WAR ESPIONAGE, SPIES, AND SECRET OPERATIONS 9781929631759 • Trade paper
$ 29.00 Officially the Cold War lasted from 1945 to 1991; but those dates are often irrelevant as previously unknown operations and names continue to surface. Based on the latest research this updated new edition contains information on the scholarship, memoirs and news items covering 330 A-Z main entries with biographical accounts of the individual spies and secret agents all cross-referenced with a suggested basic bibliography. |
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FIGHTING THE NAZIS 978-1-929631-13-1 • hardcover 2003
$ 30.00 Paul Paillole was the head of counter intelligence at Vichy and in Algiers in 1940-1944 and a major figure in French resistance to the Germans. |
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FRANCE AND THE NAZI THREAT 978-1-929631-15-5 • paper 2004
$ 26.00 The 1930s witnessed the slow decline of the once victorious France and the weakening of her foreign policy. A great French historian paints a broad picture of French foreign policy as prelude to the defeat of 1940. |
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HITLER AND HIS GENERALS 978-1-929631-09-4 • hardcover 2003
$ 42.00 Stenographers took down Hitler's military conferences for the historical record. This extraordinary document is what remains after the burning of the archives in 1945 and offers a chilling record of the day to day management of the war. |
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HITLER AND HIS GENERALS 978-1-929631-28-5 • paper 2004
$ 26.00 Stenographers took down Hitler's military conferences for the historical record. This extraordinary document is what remains after the burning of the archives in 1945 and offers a chilling record of the day to day management of the war. |
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HITLER AND MUSSOLINI 978-1-929631-42-1 • Trade paper 2008
$ 18.00 This book is a unique contribution to World War II history because it assembles scattered and often obscure material, building a complete account of historically vital information into a single text, which includes many details unknown even to many seasoned researchers. It is an important work of historical investigation, founded upon a vast number of German, Italian, Russian, French, and British sources and references covering facts indispensable to the historian and of great interest to the general reader. |
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HITLER'S GIFT TO FRANCE ISBN 978-1-929631-67-4 • Paperback
$ 19.00 In the dead of the winter of 1940 Hitler decided to order the return the remains of Napoleon II, known as the “Aiglon,” the only son of the Emperor Napoleon from its burial crypt in Vienna to Paris. The gesture was intended to win the support of the French people, but only managed to precipitate a political crisis at Vichy where Marshal Pétain ordered the pro-German Deputy Prime Minister Pierre Laval arrested. Based on new research and previously unknown documents, the author, historian Georges Poisson, at last sheds light on an incident most historians—including Robert O. Paxton—have been at a loss to explain. |
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