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HITLER'S CONTRACT

The Secret History of the Italian translation of Mein Kampf
Introduction by Susan Zuccotti

$ 22.00

When the Nazis were short of cash they sold the Italian translation rights to Mein Kampf to Mussolini who was only too happy to oblige. He overpaid for the book in what was a veiled financing of the Nazi election campaign of 1933.

HITLER'S FOREIGN POLICY 1933-1939

The Road to World War II
OUT OF STOCK

$ 34.00

Nazi Germany started WWII and this book traces that path through the forest of Hitler's foreign policy moves every step of the way.

HITLER'S FOREIGN POLICY 1933-1939

The Road to World War II
Revised edition with a new introduction

$ 29.00

FIRST COMPLETE PAPERBACK EDITION

Finally available in a single volume, the masterful study of Hitler’s foreign policy and the true origins of the Second World War by the world’s top specialist in history of Nazi Germany and World War II.

Written over the course of many years and previously available only in two volumes, this complete and updated edition is now being published in a single affordable volume for the first time.

“…the course of German foreign policy provides the obvious organizing principle for any account of the origins of World War II. This is not to assert that no other power or other factor bears any substantial share of the responsibility for the outbreak of that war or the developments leading up to it but rather to suggest that a complex question is perhaps best studied by examining its core. […]

The years from the beginning of 1933 to the end of 1936 saw a diplomatic revolution in Europe. From a barely accepted equal on the European stage, Germany became the dominant power on the Continent. With the remilitarization of the Rhine and, the stalemate in the Spanish civil war, the forming of the Axis, and the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact, this phase was completed. The diplomatic initiative in the world belonged to Germany and its partners. Germany’s determination for war became the central issue in world diplomacy.”

Gerhard L. Weinberg

HITLER'S INTELLIGENCE CHIEF

Walter Schellenberg

$ 25.00

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.

HITLER'S SECOND BOOK

The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf
Translated by Krista Smith

$ 32.00

Discovered in 1959 the sequel to Mein Kampf holds the key to Hitler's thinking about war with America.

HITLER'S SECOND BOOK

The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf
Translated by Krista Smith

$ 15.00

Discovered in 1959, the sequel to Mein Kampf holds the key to Hitler's thinking about foreign affairs and his ultimate goal of war with America.

HITLER'S TABLE TALK 1941-1944

His Secret Conversations
NEW EDITION

$ 24.00

Hitler's private thoughts in his nightly monologs to a captive audience of insiders.

New Foreword by Gerhard L. Weinberg

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.

HOLLYWOOD’S CELEBRITY GANGSTER

The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen
OUT OF PRINT

$ 24.00

“I have killed no man in the first place that didn’t deserve killing by the standards of our way of life… I had no alternative. It was either my life or their life.” This marvelously detailed biography of the legendary mobster who controlled Los Angeles for the Mafia from the days of Bugsy Siegel to Carlo Gambino and beyond. Mickey Cohen was master blackmailer of the stars and they are all on parade within these compelling pages from Marilyn Monroe to Lana Turner and Dean Martin to Sammy Davis Jr. Cohen also had frequent dealings with Jack Ruby and Carlos Marcello and intersects with the JFK assassination. A vast portrait of America and organized crime from the 1940s to the 1970s seen through the life of Mickey Cohen.

IN STALIN'S SECRET SERVICE

Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect
Preface by Sam Tanenehaus

$ 27.00

The Classic Memoirs of the First Soviet Spy Master to Defect from Stalin’s NKVD in 1937.

“Two factors chiefly moved me...One was the force of history. The other was General Walter Krivitsky who for me was to be fateful.” ----Whittaker Chambers Witness

“The information he possessed was vast, his understanding of political events unique.” ----Paul Wohl Commonweal

“Walter Krivistky is best remembered today for the unsolved mystery surrounding his death in a Washington D.C. hotel room in February 1941, a front-page story at the time. “ -----from the introduction by Sam Tanenhaus

ISRAEL AT HIGH NOON

Froom Stalin's Failed Satellite to the Cahllenge of Iran

$ 23.00

Stalin wanted Israel to be a Soviet satellite, then changed his mind and persecuted the Russian Jews instead. Israel has been engaged in a a permanent struggle for survival since its independence in 1948.