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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $18.95
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes... Read more >
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $18.95
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $23.95
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $23.95
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
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eBook.
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Fromms
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.99
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Written by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $18.99
If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Valkyrie
Written by Philip Freiherr Von Boeselager, Florence Fehrenbach and Jerome Fehrenbach
Translated by Steven Rendall
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $24.95
When the Second World War broke out, Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, age twenty-five, fought for his country enthusiastically as a cavalry officer. His rearing on the family estate in the Rhineland had instilled in him a strong Catholic faith, a reverence for the fatherland, and a love of horsemanship and the... Read more >
Written by Philip Freiherr Von Boeselager, Florence Fehrenbach and Jerome Fehrenbach
Translated by Steven Rendall
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $24.95
When the Second World War broke out, Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, age twenty-five, fought for his country enthusiastically as a cavalry officer. His rearing on the family estate in the Rhineland had instilled in him a strong Catholic faith, a reverence for the fatherland, and a love of horsemanship and the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Red Orchestra
The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
Written by Anne Nelson
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $27.00
In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats (almost half of them women) who... Read more >
The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
Written by Anne Nelson
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $27.00
In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats (almost half of them women) who... Read more >
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Red Orchestra
The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
Written by Anne Nelson
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $27.00
In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats (almost half of them women) who... Read more >
The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
Written by Anne Nelson
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $27.00
In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals, and bureaucrats (almost half of them women) who... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Nazism and War
Written by Richard Bessel
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $13.95
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the... Read more >
Written by Richard Bessel
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $13.95
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Hitler's Private Library
The Books That Shaped His Life
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $25.95
A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitler’s life—the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler’s education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private library. Recently, hundreds of those books were discovered in the Library of Congress... Read more >
The Books That Shaped His Life
Written by Timothy W. Ryback
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $25.95
A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitler’s life—the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking.
Hitler’s education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private library. Recently, hundreds of those books were discovered in the Library of Congress... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $18.95
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes... Read more >
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $18.95
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes... Read more >
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After Daybreak
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $25.00
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by... Read more >
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $25.00
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The German Empire
A Short History
Written by Michael Sturmer
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.95
In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars.
In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley... Read more >
A Short History
Written by Michael Sturmer
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.95
In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars.
In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Hitler's Willing Executioners
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
A work of the utmost importance--as authoritative as it is explosive--Hitler's Willing Executioners will fundamentally change our perception of the Holocaust and of Germany in the Nazi period. Goldhagen reaches conclusions that are both uncompromising and savage, rejecting as inadequate the conventional historical explanations for how an entire country could allow... Read more >
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
A work of the utmost importance--as authoritative as it is explosive--Hitler's Willing Executioners will fundamentally change our perception of the Holocaust and of Germany in the Nazi period. Goldhagen reaches conclusions that are both uncompromising and savage, rejecting as inadequate the conventional historical explanations for how an entire country could allow... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Oberammergau
The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play
Written by James Shapiro
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ nearly every decade since 1634. Each production of the Passion Play attracts hundreds of thousands, many drawn by the spiritual benefits it promises. Yet Hitler called it a convincing portrayal of the menace of Jewry, and in... Read more >
The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play
Written by James Shapiro
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ nearly every decade since 1634. Each production of the Passion Play attracts hundreds of thousands, many drawn by the spiritual benefits it promises. Yet Hitler called it a convincing portrayal of the menace of Jewry, and in... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Saboteurs
The Nazi Raid on America
Written by Michael Dobbs
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
Shortly after America’s entry into World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered an extensive sabotage campaign against the United States to disrupt the production of tanks and airplanes and blow up bridges and railroads. Eight German saboteurs were dispatched across the Atlantic by U-boat, one team landing in Amagansett, Long Island, the... Read more >
The Nazi Raid on America
Written by Michael Dobbs
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
Shortly after America’s entry into World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered an extensive sabotage campaign against the United States to disrupt the production of tanks and airplanes and blow up bridges and railroads. Eight German saboteurs were dispatched across the Atlantic by U-boat, one team landing in Amagansett, Long Island, the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $35.00
This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval, society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Combining a... Read more >
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $35.00
This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval, society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Combining a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Killing Hitler
The Plots, The Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
Written by Roger Moorhouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $14.00
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have... Read more >
The Plots, The Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
Written by Roger Moorhouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $14.00
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have... Read more >
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Nazism and War
Written by Richard Bessel
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the... Read more >
Written by Richard Bessel
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $13.95
The Second World War was the defining event of the twentieth century, leaving millions dead and redrawing the political map in ways that continue to affect nearly the entire human race. What was unprecedented, however, was not simply the war’s scale, but its causes. Unlike previous territorial or political clashes, the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Soldiers and Slaves
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this... Read more >
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this... Read more >
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Killing Hitler
Written by Roger Moorhouse
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $25.00
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have... Read more >
Written by Roger Moorhouse
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $25.00
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Killing Hitler
Written by Roger Moorhouse
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $14.00
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have... Read more >
Written by Roger Moorhouse
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $14.00
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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After Daybreak
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $25.00
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by... Read more >
The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $25.00
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Soldiers and Slaves
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $15.00
In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to... Read more >
American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
Written by Roger Cohen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $15.00
In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Saboteurs
The Nazi Raid on America
Written by Michael Dobbs
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $16.00
In 1942, Hitler's Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure. It was a plot that proved historically remarkable for two reasons: the surprising extent of its success and the astounding nature of its failure. Soon after two U-Boats packed with... Read more >
The Nazi Raid on America
Written by Michael Dobbs
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $16.00
In 1942, Hitler's Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure. It was a plot that proved historically remarkable for two reasons: the surprising extent of its success and the astounding nature of its failure. Soon after two U-Boats packed with... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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On the Natural History of Destruction
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Anthea Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2004
Price: $15.00
During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died—a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W... Read more >
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Anthea Bell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2004
Price: $15.00
During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died—a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Hitler and the Holocaust
Written by Robert Solomon Wistrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $15.00
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich examines Europe’s long history of violence against its Jewish populations, looks at the forces that shaped Hitler’s belief in a “satanic Jewish... Read more >
Written by Robert Solomon Wistrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $15.00
Hitler and the Holocaust is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich examines Europe’s long history of violence against its Jewish populations, looks at the forces that shaped Hitler’s belief in a “satanic Jewish... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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