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Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God . It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last,... (more)

by Smedley D. Butler

Originally printed in 1935, War Is a Racket is General Smedley Butler's frank speech describing his role as a soldier as nothing more than serving as a puppet for big-business interests. In addition to photos from the notorious 1932 anti-war book The Horror of It by Frederick A. Barber, this book includes two never-before-published anti-interventionist essays by General Butler. The introduction discusses why... (more)

Liberal Facism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change

Liberal Facism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change

by Jonah Goldberg

Fascists, Brownshirts, jackbooted stormtrooperssuch are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing... (more)

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of this century's blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of... (more)

The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)

The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)

by Ezra Pound

1st paper edtn, incl English tr of Canto LXXII

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

by Jon Meacham

The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a... (more)

Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943

Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943

by Carlo D'Este

Bitter Victory illuminates a chapter of World War II that has lacked a balanced, full-scale treatment until now. In recounting the second-largest amphibious operation in military history, Carlo D'Este for the first time reveals the conflicts in planning and the behind-the-scenes quarrels between top Allied commanders. The book explodes the myth of the Patton-Montgomery rivalry and exposes how Alexander's inept... (more)

A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound

by Carroll Franklin Terrell, Ezra Pound

The Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos. Available in a one-volume paperback edition for the first time, the Companion brings together in conveniently numbered glosses for each canto the most pertinent details from the vast body of work on the Cantos during the last thirty years. The Companion ... (more)

The Doctrine of Fascism

by Benito Mussolini

My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini's Son

My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini's Son

by Romano Mussolini

Breaking a lifelong silence, the last surviving child of Benito Mussolini opens the floodgates about his father. In this historical, revisionist memoir, Romano Mussolini (September 26, 1927-February 3, 2006), the last surviving child of dictator Benito Mussolini, contributes his unique perspective to the growing body of work that portrays Il Duce's era. Through Romano's portrait of never before publicly shared... (more)

A CafÃ© on the Nile: Book Two of the Anton Rider Trilogy (Anton Rider Trilogy Anton Rider Trilogy)

A CafÃ© on the Nile: Book Two of the Anton Rider Trilogy (Anton Rider Trilogy Anton Rider Trilogy)

by Bartle Bull

East Africa, 1935. A nation sits at the brink of war, a city is fraught with conspiracy, and at the Cataract Caf in Cairo, a colorful cast of characters - professional hunter Anton Rider, his estranged wife and her Italian lover, the pampered American twins Bernadette and Harriet Mills, a German freebooter who has stolen a fortune in silver from the Italian army, the Goan dwarf and caf proprietor Olivio Alevado -... (more)

Mussolini and Fascist Italy (Lancaster Pamphlets)

Mussolini and Fascist Italy (Lancaster Pamphlets)

by Martin Blinkhorn

In this concise introduction, based on the most recent research in Italian and English, Martin Blinkhorn sets out to explain the significance of the movement which came to dominate Italian life between 1922 and the Second World War. He examines its origins in the context of the economic problems of post Risorimento Italy and the social and political convulsions wrought by economic change after 1890. This is the... (more)

Mussolini: A Dictator Dies (World at War)G. C. Skipper

Mussolini: A Dictator Dies (World at War)

by G. C. Skipper

Details the last days of the man who founded Fascism and ruled as dictator of Italy for almost 21 years.

Phoenix: Mussolini Memoirs

by Benito Mussolini, R. Klibansky

Here are the words of the man who led Italy to fascism and aided Hitler during the war, written in early 1944 as it all began to fall apart. A fascinating historical document of first-rate importance, these memoirs come from his personal account (annotated but unaltered) of the events immediately preceding and following the capitulation of the Italian armies and the collapse of his regime. Included as an appendix:... (more)

The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War

The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War

by Martin Gilbert

In The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War, Martin Gilbert graphically charts the war’s political, military, economic and social history through 247 maps. Each map has been specially drawn for this atlas, many of them covering topics that have not previously been mapped. The atlas covers all the major events from the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 to the defeat of Japan in August 1945, including... (more)

Selected Cantos

by Ezra Pound

Among his fellow modernists, Ezra Pound inspired equal parts admiration and contempt. T.S. Eliot called him " il miglior fabbro " and dedicated "The Waste Land" to him after Pound had surgically stripped down the masterwork. Gertrude Stein, on the other hand, mocked his obsession with "Kulchur" and his pedagogical need to insert his versions of history, thought, economics, and morality into the Cantos .... (more)

The Collapse of the Third Republic An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940

The Collapse of the Third Republic An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940

by William L. Shirer

Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940

Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940

by William Manchester

The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world leader. Discussion centers on the alarm he sounded about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. Two 8-page photos inserts.

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A Thread of Grace

by Mary Doria Russell

by Smedley D. Butler

Liberal Facism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change

by Jonah Goldberg

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)

by Ezra Pound

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

by Jon Meacham

Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943

by Carlo D'Este

A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound

by Carroll Franklin Terrell, Ezra Pound

The Doctrine of Fascism

by Benito Mussolini

My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini's Son

by Romano Mussolini

A CafÃ© on the Nile: Book Two of the Anton Rider Trilogy (Anton Rider Trilogy Anton Rider Trilogy)

by Bartle Bull

Mussolini and Fascist Italy (Lancaster Pamphlets)

by Martin Blinkhorn

Mussolini: A Dictator Dies (World at War)

by G. C. Skipper

Phoenix: Mussolini Memoirs

by Benito Mussolini, R. Klibansky

The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War

by Martin Gilbert

Selected Cantos

by Ezra Pound

The Collapse of the Third Republic An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940

by William L. Shirer

Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940

by William Manchester

Eine Liebe am Tiber : Roman

by Jan Koneffke