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Alfred I. Du Pont: the man and his family
By Joseph Frazier Wall. 1990
Wall traces the intriguing personal lives of seven generations of du Ponts and the effect family contentions had on their…
gunpowder enterprise. Born into the dynasty, Alfred, unlike his father, inherited a head for the business and soon, amid family resentment, rose to the top. Eventually forced out of the family company, Alfred continued as a successful businessman in his own rightExecutive in passage: career in crisis--the door to uncommon fulfillment
By Donald Marrs. 1990
A middle-aged top advertising executive examines his feelings of discomfort in his daily work, realizing that his inner values conflict…
with his professional motives. In this account, he traces the changes he has made to avoid compromising those values. He includes internal dialogue along with his external moves and offers guidance for those who would share his experienceRoar of the tiger: From Flying Tigers To Mustangs - A Fighter Ace's Memoir
By James H Howard. 1991
As a Navy pilot, the author flew over both Europe and the Pacific during World War II. His memoirs range…
from his time as an aviation cadet through his service as a fighter pilot, and cover the daring bravery for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 1991.World War Two through German eyes: Battle Of Britain - August 18, 1940
By James Sidney Lucas. 1987
The author presents a look at World War II as it was viewed by the Germans. He covers their perspectives…
on issues of political, social, economic, and military concerns. Particular attention is given to the position of women, and to citizens' relations with their local governments. 1987.Sam Walton, made in America: my story
By Sam Walton, John Huey. 1992
At the urging of family and business associates, Walton wrote the unique tale of Wal-Mart just before his death in…
1992. His passion to compete helped his empire grow from one store in 1962 to a chain of more than 2,000 in 1992, with a profit of more than $1 billion a year. Yet Walton lived without splendor, bought his clothes at Wal-Mart, and drove a pick-up truck. BestsellerMaking the mummies dance: inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Thomas Hoving. 1993
These memoirs are about the decade the author spent as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York…
City. Hoving begins with the maneuvering that brought him the post. And he continues with stories, often quoting directly from personal daily dictation, that reveal what went on behind the scenes as the Met was transformed into a major tourist attraction. Bestseller. 1993The escape artist: the man who broke out of auschwitz to warn the world
By Jonathan Freedland. 2022
"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information — and misinformation. Is it…
possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" — Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow A complex hero. A forgotten story. The first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust . . . Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the incredible story of Rudolf Vrba—the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz, a man determined to warn the world and pass on a truth too few were willing to hear—elevating him to his rightful place in the annals of World War II alongside Anne Frank, Primo Levi, and Oskar Schindler and casting a new light on the Holocaust and its aftermath. People won't believe what they can't imagine . . . In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz—one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world—and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz the world had ever seen—a forensically detailed report that would eventually reach Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and the Pope. And yet too few heeded the warning that Vrba—then just nineteen years old—had risked everything to deliver. Some could not believe it. Others thought it easier to keep quiet. Vrba helped save 200,000 Jewish lives—but he never stopped believing it could have been so many more. This is the story of a brilliant yet troubled man—a gifted "escape artist" who even as a teenager understand that the difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death, a man who deserves to take his place alongside Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler and Primo Levi as one of the handful of individuals whose stories define our understanding of the HolocaustHalf american: the epic story of african americans fighting world war ii at home and abroad
By Matthew F Delmont. 2022
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history…
professor Matthew Delmont &“Matthew F. Delmont&’s book is filled with compelling narratives that outline with nuance, rigor, and complexity how Black Americans fought for this country abroad while simultaneously fighting for their rights here in the United States. Half American belongs firmly within the canon of indispensable World War II books.&” —Clint Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored, cast aside in favor of the myth of the &“Good War&” fought by the &“Greatest Generation.&” Half American is American history as you&’ve likely never read it before. In these pages are stories of Black heroes such as Thurgood Marshall, the chief lawyer for the NAACP, who investigated and publicized violence against Black troops and veterans; Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., leader of the Tuskegee Airmen, who was at the forefront of the years-long fight to open the Air Force to Black pilots; Ella Baker, the civil rights leader who advocated on the home front for Black soldiers, veterans, and their families; James Thompson, the 26-year-old whose letter to a newspaper laying bare the hypocrisy of fighting against fascism abroad when racism still reigned at home set in motion the Double Victory campaign; and poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a war correspondent for the Black press. Their bravery and patriotism in the face of unfathomable racism is both inspiring and galvanizing. In a time when the questions World War II raised regarding race and democracy in America remain troublingly relevant and still unanswered, this meticulously researched retelling makes for urgently necessary readingMaxwell, the outsider: The Outsider
By Tom Bower. 1992
Updated version, first published in Britain in 1988 despite vigorous attempts at suppression, since it portrays the publishing magnate steeped…
in controversy. Bower follows Robert Maxwell, a poor Czechoslovakian Jew who lost his parents in the Holocaust, from his flight to England and military service in World War II through his attempts to gain respectability in politics, his recurring scandals, and his mysterious death in 1991. 1992.The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
By Ron Chernow. 1993
For centuries, the Warburgs have been a successful German-Jewish banking family. With unconditional access to the family's Hamburg papers and…
cooperation from the current Warburgs, Chernow has traced the family's roots; rise to power; reaction to both world wars; expansion to England, France, and the United States; and return to Hamburg. He details their personal lives as wellOuvrir une voie (Collection Guérin)
By Emmanuel Faber. 2022
L'ancien dirigeant de Danone évoque le rapport qu'il entretient avec la montagne depuis son enfance tout en témoignant de son…
expérience de patron engagé. Il appelle également à agir en direction d'une compétitivité écologique et sociale en adéquation avec les enjeux du XXIe siècle.D-Day, June 6, 1944: the climactic battle of World War II
By Stephen E Ambrose. 1994
From an interview with Supreme Commander General Eisenhower in 1964 through the recollections of hundreds of Allied and German veterans,…
a military historian reconstructs the most decisive day of World War II. Some strong language. c1994.It ain't as easy as it looks: Ted Turner's amazing story
By Porter Bibb. 1993
Bibb interviewed more than 200 of Turner's friends, associates, and family members for this unauthorized biography of the fifty-five-year-old billionaire.…
Discussed are his successes in cable broadcasting (TNT and CNN among others), his sailing career, his ownership of the Atlanta Braves, his tumultuous personal life, his wedding to Jane Fonda, and his interest in environmental issues. Strong languageNo ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II
By Doris Kearns Goodwin. 1994
A portrait of the president and the first lady during World War II. Based on her examination of their papers,…
and interviews with their friends and family, Goodwin analyzes the Roosevelts' adversities, achievements, and leadership from interrelated political, social, intellectual, and personal perspectivesLager, who headed Ben & Jerry's for eight years, gives the company's history. Childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield…
led relatively unsuccessful lives until 1978, when they collaborated on creating an ice cream store in a former gas station in Vermont after taking a correspondence course on the topic. c1994.Now hear this: the story of American sailors in World War II
By Edwin Palmer Hoyt. 1993
Hoyt states that the average sailor served throughout World War II without knowing what was really happening until he read…
about it. Drawing on letters, memos, journals, and interviews with sailors, Hoyt provides an account of how the war appeared to enlisted men. He includes stories of many men who never saw combat duty, such as laundrymen, cooks, mapmakers, and stevedores. 1993.The wages of guilt: memories of war in Germany and Japan
By Ian Buruma. 1994
Explores how the Japanese and the Germans feel about their involvement in World War II. The author is especially interested…
in the link in prewar attitudes between these two countries and the contrast in how the European and Pacific conflicts are viewed a half century later. Buruma traces the courses of two of America's former enemies and shows how they have become major allies. Violence and some strong language. 1994.Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
By Caroline Moorehead. 2022
The bestselling author of A Train in Winter returns with the definitive story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the…
most influential women in 1930s Italy, whose life had more twists and turns than a spy novel.Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite child: spoiled and venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. For much of the twenty-year period of Fascist rule, she was her father's closest confidante.In 1930, at the age of nineteen, Edda married Count Galeazzo Ciano, who would become the youngest Foreign Secretary in Italian history. Acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, Edda played a part in steering Italy to join forces with Hitler. During this time, the Cianos became the most celebrated and glamorous couple in elegant, vulgar Roman fascist society.Their fortunes turned in 1943, when Ciano voted against Mussolini in a plot to bring him down, and his father-in-law did not forgive him. Edda's dramatic story includes hidden diaries, her father's downfall and her husband's execution, and an escape into Switzerland followed by a period in exile. Moorehead draws a portrait of a complicated, bold, and determined woman—one who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some of the twentieth century's defining moments. And we see Fascist Italy with all its glamour, decadence and political intrigue, and the turbulence before its violent end.The diary of a young girl: the definitive edition
By Anne Frank, Otto H. Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Susan Massotty. 1995
This notebook kept by a German-born Jewish girl includes material that was omitted from the first edition in 1947. Begun…
on her thirteenth birthday, the diary is a personal, sometimes humorous, account of years spent with her family in a Dutch attic hiding from the Nazis. After Anne heard a radio appeal about the importance of such papers, she expanded the scope of her entries. For high school and older readersA mouthful of rivets: women at work in World War II
By Nancy Baker Wise, Christy Wise. 1994
Nancy Baker Wise was among the many women who stepped into jobs left vacant by World War II soldiers. She…
and her daughter interviewed 137 others like her to describe that experience. The women discuss the types of jobs taken, the training provided, the attitudes of male co-workers and supervisors, the effects on the women's homelife, and their displacement after the war. 1994.