enigma books

THE KRAVCHENKO CASE

One Man’s War Against Stalin

$ 28.00

"This thoughtful and meticulously researched book is far more than a biography. It is also a wide-ranging study of Soviet-American relations, World War II, the Cold War, Western fellow-traveling, and the Western reception of defectors. Kern embeds Kravchenko's life in a thoroughly explored political and historical context."
Paul Hollander /The New Criterion

Based on the private, unpublished papers of Victor Kravchenko, never before available to researchers and historians; hundreds of FBI documents won after a six-year lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act; and extensive interviews with the defector's sons and associates, The Kravchenko Case tells the story of a man who broke away from the closed Soviet society, defected to America, and then waged a one-man war against Stalin’s dictatorial regime.

THE MAFIA AND THE ALLIES

The Invasion of Sicily in 1943 and the Return of the Mafia
How the Mafia Returned to Power

$ 17.00

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 MAN BEHIND THE ROSENBERGS

Introduction by Ronald Radosh

$ 35.00

The KGB handler of Julius Rosenberg tells his story for the first time.

“Revelatory and sensational!” – Sam Roberts of The New York Times, author of The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair

“In effect, Feklisov was the man behind Julius Rosenberg…Now, so many decades later, as he nears the end of his own life, he speaks for the first time about his treasured relationship with Rosenberg, which undoubtedly became the proudest episode of his career with the KGB.” – Ronald Radosh, author of The Rosenberg File, from his Introduction to – The Man Behind the Rosenbergs

THE MAN BEHIND THE ROSENBERGS

Introduction by Ronald Radosh

$ 18.00

The KGB handler of Julius Rosenberg tells his story for the first time.

“Revelatory and sensational!” – Sam Roberts of The New York Times, author of The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair

“In effect, Feklisov was the man behind Julius Rosenberg…Now, so many decades later, as he nears the end of his own life, he speaks for the first time about his treasured relationship with Rosenberg, which undoubtedly became the proudest episode of his career with the KGB.” – Ronald Radosh, author of The Rosenberg File, from his Introduction to – The Man Behind the Rosenbergs

THE MURDER OF MAXIM GORKY

$ 23.00

“Because he was allowed access to many [of] the archives that remain off-limits to researchers and because he was lucky enough to interview a few of the remaining survivors, Arkadi Vaksberg has written a very intelligent spy story that John Le Carré would certainly approve of. He does all this without forgetting to be fair and that his subject—Gorky—was after all something of a wild visionary.” Angelo Rinaldi in L’Express

THE NAZI PARTY 1919 - 1945

A Complete History

$ 26.00

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 ORIGINS OF FASCIST IDEOLOGY

1918-1925
Translated by Robert L. Miller

$ 19.00

Fascism didn't emerge in a vacuum but used and co-opted a number of sources to build a complete ideology.

Long considered a taboo subject, few Italian academics had seriously investigated the question of fascist ideology many years after the fall of the regime and its disappearance from the political scene. Professor Gentile has successfully unravelled the ideological roots of fascism completing our understanding of fascist political reality. This book is a milestone in finally identifying the origins of a major twentieth century political potical movement.

THE ORIGINS OF THE WAR OF 1914

New Edition of the Classic Study Long Out of Print
Three Volume Set. Introduction by Dr. Samuel Williamson

$ 95.00

“The bedrock of all discussion remains L. Albertini’s The Origins of the War of 1914…which provides a detailed chronology of the crisis and excerpts from the most important documents.” John Keegan – The First World War

The classic three volume study of the origins of the First World War that uses documents and interviews of the main players during the 1920s and 30s to show how the war started and why.

THE SECRET FRONT

Preface by David Kahn author of The Codebreakers

$ 18.00

A Nazi spy and SD officer, Hoettl was involved in some of the most unsavory cases of foreign intrigue by Nazi Germany. He ran networks in the Balkans and inside the Vatican and was instrumental in the attempt to flood England with false pound sterling banknotes. Hottl was accused of corruption by other Nazis and investigated for almost two years until he was exonerated and protected by Ernst Kaltenbrunner a fellow Austrian from Linz and the sucessor of Reinhard Heydrich as head of the RSHA and the Gestapo.

THE SHATTEREDSKY

A Fictional Memoir of Paris, Tunis, and Auschwitz
Link to www.bernarduzan.com

$ 20.00

To be down and out in Paris as a young man. The 21-year-old hero struggles to survive, taking multiple jobs, including that of secret agent for the French government. After the untimely deaths of his father and his brother, he takes on the struggle for daily existence, overcoming enormous handicaps as a polio survivor, a Jew in anti-Semitic France, the desperate search for work, and for love, while the call of adventure opens up the long road toward finding himself. A first novel translated from the French.