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Satan in Top Hat: The Biography of Franz von Papen
By Tibor Koeves. 2017
Originally published in 1941, this is a biography of the former German Chancellor, former head of the German spy network…
in America, and one of Adolf Hitler’s highest officials, Franz von Papen (1879-1969).“In this volume the reader will not find a single love letter, nor an abundance of intimate details about strictly personal incidents.“Fortunately enough, in Franz von Papen’s case the lack of confidential gossip doesn’t obscure the understanding of the human figure. As it will be seen, he is the par excellence political man who has found a complete self-expression in the practice of diplomacy and politics. It would be vain to try to grasp the full nature of Julius Caesar without knowing what pleasure and vice, what the senses meant to him. Many smaller but important historic figures would never yield the secret of their personalities but for the information we possess about their greed for gold or women, about their appetites.“Ever since his early manhood, Franz von Papen has hungered for one exclusive object: power. The latter being the very essence of politics, this book is a political biography. It studies the awakening of an individual to the call of power, and the course of his strenuous and tortuous struggle for it on domestic as well as foreign forums. Also, since Franz von Papen’s career has transcended national barriers, the story of his life is indissolubly tied to that other, a collective manifestation of the will to power, whose aim is the domination of the world by a nation.”General Lee’s Photographer: The Life and Work of Michael Miley
By Marshall Fishwick. 2017
As award-winning popular culture author, scholar, and fellow Virginia native Dr. Marshall Fishwick himself states in his introductory pages, “This…
book is about a Southerner of the Reconstruction period whose work has been almost completely ignored to date. His name was Michael Miley, and his field was photography. The record of his life and of his work indicates that he deserves a distinctive place for both his scientific contributions and his aesthetic achievements in this field.”Michael Miley (1841-1918) was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, and while still young moved south onto a farm in Rockbridge County. Following his service in General Thomas J. Jackson’s “Stonewall Brigade” during the war, he began his photographic career. Portraiture would go on to comprise the majority of Michael Miley’s work, with his famous images of Robert E. Lee as popular then as they are now.The Embarkation
By Murray Gitlin. 2017
What makes a Jew a Jew? This question is often heard among young American Jews who have not been brought…
up to understand the spiritual values which the Jews gave to the world. “The Embarkation,” Murray Gitlin’s emotional novel, first published in 1950, gives to a certain extent a psychological answer to this question.The central figure in the novel, Martin Tester, is an American soldier who is forced to become a deserter due to the anti-Semitism of his commander. He wanders around for two years in Italy, knowing that a court martial awaits him if he ever returns to the United States. An American who works for British Intelligence in Italy discovers him and guarantees that everything will be forgiven and forgotten, provided he spies on ships carrying “illegal” Jewish immigrants from Italy to Palestine. Having no choice, he accepts the offer. However, coming face to face with the first transport of Jewish refugees, he decides to help rather than denounce them to the British agents. He is helped in this by an Italian girl who falls in love with him and by other Italians of good will, who ask no questions…“The book is very well-written and makes absorbing reading.”—The Wisconsin Jewish ChronicleThe Parlor Provocateur or From Salon to Soap-Box
By Kate Crane Gartz. 2017
Kate Crane Gartz delighted in describing herself as the first ‘parlor Bolshevik.’ The daughter of Chicago industrialist and philanthropist Richard…
T. Crane, sister of Chicago Socialist and strike activist Frances Crane Lillie, Gartz moved from reform to revolution with the currents of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Her unique form of protest was letter-writing.A Change and a Parting: My Story of Amana
By Barbara S. Yambura. 2017
Barbara Yambura was truly an Amana Dauther, descendant of a people in whose tradition and lineage she took pride. She…
delighted in sharing her rich Amana experiences and the vivid memories of her youth and young womanhood.In this personal account, she has been sensitive to the significance of this unique social experiment and sympathetic to the inevitable change destined to occur. ‘Anna’s’ story is, in truth, an authentic chronicle which will serve history for many years to come.“This account of a typical childhood as experienced by those isolated from the outside world should be read as a piece of authentic Americana, and as Americana it is recommended.”—Library JournalSheridan, the Inevitable
By Richard O’Connor. 2017
First published in 1953, Richard O’Connor’s classic biography of General Phillip Sheridan is a fascinating study that sheds new light…
on a great soldier and the bloody conflict in which he rose to prominence.General Sheridan was the mastermind behind the Union cavalry operations and distinguished himself at Murfreesboro and in the Chattanooga campaign. Commanding General of the U.S. Army, Ulysses S. Grant, recognizing Sheridan’s ability, appointed him head of the cavalry crops for the Army of the Potomac in 1864.General Sheridan led a daring raid during the Wilderness campaign that destroyed communications and supplies behind Lee’s lines and resulted in the defeat of Jeb Stuart at Yellow Tavern. His most brilliant success was in the Shenandoah Valley, where he rallied his men after Jubal Early’s surprise attack and won a decisive victory. After another important victory at the Battle of Five Forks, Sheridan pursued top army commander, Robert E. Lee, cutting off his lines of retreat at Appomattox and forcing the surrender.The author’s lively and informative account provides a vivid portrait of a dedicated soldier, the battles that he fought and the turbulent time in which he lived.Grandpa Was a Whaler: A Story of Carteret Chadwicks
By Amy Muse. 2017
A survey of the Chadwick family of the Northeast and North Carolina, who played a pivotal role in the development…
of the regional commerce. The narrative focuses on the period from around 1725 and just after the Civil War.Researcher Amy Muse, a direct descendant of the Chadwicks on her mother’s side, first published Grandpa Was a Whaler in 1961. It became the first thorough research document on the earliest history of whaling in America in 1681 and the involvement of the Chadwick family over the years in whaling and ocean-going shipping. The narrative focuses on the period from around 1725 and just after the Civil War, from Massachusetts to North Carolina and, in particular, to Carteret County, North Carolina, where the Chadwicks established residency.This Was Andersonville: The True Story of Andersonville Prison Camp [Illustrated Edition]
By Roy Meredith, Pvt. John McElroy. 2017
THE TRUE STORY OF ANDERSONVILLE MILITARY PRISON, AS TOLD IN THE PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN MCELROY, SOMETIME PRIVATE, CO. L,…
16TH ILLINOIS CAVALRYAged only 16 years old in 1863, John McElroy enlisted with the Union Army as a private in Company L of the 16th Illinois Cavalry regiment, and was captured the following year near Jonesville, Virginia, by Confederate cavalrymen.McElroy was first sent to Richmond, then to Andersonville in February 1864. In October 1864 he was moved to Savannah and within about six weeks was sent to the new prison in Millen, Georgia (Camp Lawton); thence to several other camps before the war ended and his release from captivity.In 1879, John McElroy wrote Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, a non-fiction work based on his experiences during his fifteen-month incarceration. It quickly became a bestseller.This is the edited 1957 version by Roy Meredith, richly illustrated throughout by Arthur C. Butts IV.The Foundations of the Science of War
By Maj-Gen. J. F. C. Fuller. 2017
The Foundations of the Science of War by Col. J. F. C. Fuller, first published in 1925, aims, as the…
title suggests and in the author’s own words, to provide “a foundation of the science of war, or, at least, of a science of war.” Col. Fuller spent over 15 years planning this foundation, and it was his endeavour that it would allow military students to examine it “not only for its own worth, but in order to think of war scientifically, for until we do so we shall never become true artists of war.” Likewise, Col. Fuller hoped the book may be of use to all other interested readers, “not only in studying war, but in studying any of the activities of life.”“In this book I am attempting something new—at least, new since the days of Henry Lloyd and Robert Jackson; for, as far as I am aware, these are my only two fellow-countrymen who have attempted to reduce war to a science. In a small way I am trying to do for war what Copernicus did for astronomy, Newton for physics, and Darwin for natural history. My book, I believe, is the first in which a writer has attempted to apply the method of science to the study of war; for Lloyd, Jackson, Clausewitz, Jomini, and Foch did not do this. In a few years’ time I hope that it will be superseded by many a better work, so that we all may begin to understand the nature of war, and thereby discover, not only how to prepare for war, but how to restrict its ravages; how to harness it, and possibly, also, how to transmute the destructive ferocity of the ape into the creative gentleness of the angel.”—Col. J. F. C. FullerThe Story of Bodie
By Ella M. Cain, Donald I. Segerstrom. 2017
First published in 1956, this is a history of California’s official state gold rush ghost town, which was designated a…
National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 became Bodie State Historic Park.The account is written by Ella M. Cain, a native of Bodie, whose father-in-law James S. Cain and family owned much of the land the town is situated upon and had hired caretakers to protect and to maintain the town’s structures following its decline in 1914.“Bodie deserved and sustained its reputation of being the most lawless, the wildest and toughest mining camp the Far West has ever known.”—Ella M. CainConceiving: Preventing and Treating Infertility
By Barbara Sandilands, Denis Gingras, Pierre Miron, Mathieu Provençal. 2015
In recent years, infertility has become a medical phenomenon that affects more and more adults of reproductive age. In western…
countries, between 10 and 15 percent of couples are infertile. These couples are victims of a silent human tragedy that can cause major suffering and significantly erode quality of life. This work presents a guide to reproductive difficulties and the medical approaches that can help prevent and treat infertility. Inside, you will find: The kinds and causes of infertility that affect men and women A thorough look at key treatments, including in-vitro fertilization Prenatal screening and other critical post-conception procedures Health advice for conception and pregnancyMy Hospital in the Hills
By Gordon S. Seagrave. 2017
Account of the rebuilding of the author’s hospital in post-war Burma, of his training of Burmese medical personnel, and of…
his undeserved trial for treason.First published in 1957, this is the account of the rebuilding of the author’s hospital in post-war Burma, of his training of Burmese medical personnel, and of his undeserved trial for treason. The book also portrays the social, economic, political and historical aspects of The Union of Burma during her early days of independence.Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave was a famous surgeon who opened his missionary hospital in Namhkam, a small town in northern Shan State, from which he established himself as an outstanding surgeon, known all over the world as “Burma Surgeon.”His previous bestsellers, Burma Surgeon (1943), Dr. Seagrave’s account of his medical mission in the jungle wilds, and the follow-up Burma Surgeon Returns (1946), which tells the story of what happened to him and his hospital unit after the retreat to India, portrayed his ‘open-door-policy’ to all those patients, rich or poor, who came from every corner of the country.My Hospital in the Hills further cements Dr. Seagrave’s reputation as a real life-saver at a time where there were very few skilled surgeons in the early and turmoil days of The Union.Combat Mission Kandahar: The Canadian Experience in Afghanistan
By T. Robert Fowler. 2016
Seven soldiers. Seven military specialties. Seven stories. What was it like to serve in the combat mission in Afghanistan? Journalists’…
reports from 2006 to 2011 could only give brief glimpses of the reality on the ground for Canadian soldiers. This book reveals the full story of what happened to seven soldiers, ranking from corporal to captain, who were deployed during Operation ATHENA, Phase 2. The operation became known as “the combat mission” as Canadian battle groups engaged in a deadly multi-year war of counter-insurgency in Kandahar province. Each of the seven soldier’s experiences covered in Combat Mission Kandahar highlights a facet of one of Canada’s longest, most complicated, and challenging operations.Citizen Sailors: Chronicles of Canada's Naval Reserve, 1910-2010
By Richard H. Gimblett, Michael L. Hadley. 2010
This commemorative volume produced on the occasion of the centennial of the Canadian Navy, 1910-2010, records a special kind of…
dual citizenship: Canadians exercising the profession of the sea in their nation's service, while also living out the demands of their civilian occupations in their home communities. The perspectives of the part-time citizen-sailors who have made up Canada's Naval Reserve over the past century provide an interesting, valuable, and timely alternative history of the Canadian Navy. Most of the contributors to this volume have served in Canada's Naval Reserve, and all are respected authorities in their fields. Whether read on its own, or as the intended companion to The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010: The Centennial Story, readers will find much to delight and inform in this lavish combination of text, photos, and illustrations of the people, ships, and aircraft that have formed a proud national institution.Marshall: Citizen Soldier
By William Frye. 2017
If you think of biography as the static record of a man’s achievement, compiled during twenty or more mellowing years,…
William Frye’s book will have the impact of an electric shock. Marshall: Citizen Soldier is not to be leafed through idly, just as George Catlett Marshall himself cannot be regarded passively.That deceptively mild manner of his, as buck privates, brass hats and not a few politicos have discovered, only indifferently conceals a driving determination, backed by an inner steel core of moral integrity and joined with a lifetime’s habit of command.The general public has not given Marshall the excited, short-lived adulation that it has heaped upon more flamboyantly dramatic military men. But the people recognized in George Marshall the citizen’s soldier to whom they could safely entrust the most vital post in an America at war—Chief of Staff of the United States Army.The acceptance by Marshall early in 1947 of one of the greatest appointive offices in our government, that of Secretary of State, a job today of world significance, leaves no doubt either of the abilities of the man or of his devotion to the public weal. For the dearest wish of the erstwhile Chief of Staff had been a quiet retirement at the end of his Army duties.Marshall began his career in unorthodox fashion by graduating from the V.M.I. instead of West Point. Even on routine tours of duty in the Philippines, in the States and later in China he was singled out by senior officers as a young man of remarkable ability. During World War I, Marshall asked for command duty in France. His superiors rushed him abroad but they realized that Major Marshall was hard-to-get staff officer material, not slated for a regular front-line assignment.William Frye as Marshall’s biographer comes into touch with some of the knottiest questions of the war years. He does not sidestep issues and controversies; he meets them with decision.Cardinal Mindszenty: The Story of a Modern Martyr
By Bela Fabian. 2017
“Readable, stirring, and significant”—George N. Shuster, Saturday Review“To read this human story of a strong but simple man—Cardinal Mindszenty—is to…
be inspired to love better your God, your country and your fellowman, for it is a stirring story of faith and charity, of tolerance, loyalty and friendship.”—Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New YorkJózsef Cardinal Mindszenty (1892-1975) was the Prince Primate, Archbishop of Esztergom, cardinal, and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary (1945-1973) who was imprisoned by the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party during World War II and after the war, being a strong opponent of communism and the communist persecution in his country, was tortured and given a life sentence in a 1949 show trial that generated worldwide condemnation.Rather than a carefully written account of Cardinal Mindszenty’s career, here is an account of what the Cardinal heard and saw during the events which led up to the most sensational trial in Hungarian history…Convoy Commodore
By Rear-Adm. Sir Kenelm Creighton. 2017
On September 4, 1939, Admiral Creighton, who had retired from the Navy five years earlier, reported again to the Admiralty…
for service as a Commodore of Ocean Convoys. In the following three years he conducted 24 convoys to various parts of the world.The greater part of this time was spent on the North Atlantic route with its violent storms and the continual menace of U-boat attack. But there were other destinations, such as Suez via the Cape of Good Hope, and Casablanca—where the convoy sailed to repatriate 15,000 French troops after the fall of France, and found itself under arrest. In 1941 Admiral Creighton narrowly escaped with his life when the ship he was in was sunk by a U-boat near Gibraltar. Another ship in which he was travelling as a passenger, accompanied by his wife, was torpedoed and sunk by German aircraft.Besides a wealth of personal experiences Admiral Creighton gives us a broader picture of the work done by convoys throughout the last war. From his senior position, and with an intimate knowledge of the subject, he is able to convey graphically the true nature of this dangerous and vital task.“Rear-Admiral Creighton served for the three opening years of World War II as Commodore of ocean convoys, mainly in the dour North Atlantic. He was twice sunk, once near Gibraltar, the second time when going to take up a final appointment in Egypt. His narrative is enthralling....The life of an ocean commodore in war has rarely been described in detail; its responsibilities have never been better conveyed.”—British Book News“Twenty-five convoys...some fast, most of them slow, some to hot climates, but mostly that gruelling trip across the Atlantic to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the face of westerly gales, snow and ice which were often worse enemies than the U-boats.”—Evening NewsHold High the Torch: A History of the 4th Marines (Elite Unit Ser. #No. 18)
By Kenneth W. Condit. 2017
Hold High the Torch, the first of a series of regimental and squadron histories by the Historical Branch, G-3 Division,…
Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, is designed primarily to acquaint the members of the 4th Marines, past and present, with the history of their regiment. In addition, it is hoped this volume will enlarge public understanding of the Marine Corps’ worth both in limited war and as a force in readiness. During most of its existence the 4th Marines was not engaged in active military operations, but service of the regiment in China, the Dominican Republic, and off the west coast of Mexico, was typical of the Marine Corps’ support of national policy.In many of its combat operations, the 4th Marines was only one element of a much larger force. In other instances, as in the Dominican Republic and China, the regiment was a subordinate unit in situations which were essentially political and diplomatic. Only so much of these higher echelon activities as are essential to an understanding of the 4th Marines story have been told. This is a regimental history and the focus is therefore on the 4th Marines.Of Smiling Peace
By Stefan Heym. 2017
Of Smiling Peace is a novel about the hazards of victory, told in the human terms of liberators, liberated and…
oppressors. As a story it is an absorbing duel of wits and force between resourceful Bert Wolff, American Intelligence officer, and Major Ludwig von Liszt, highly placed German Staff officer. Caught up in this duel—as bait or prize, no one knew which—is the beautiful, shrewd Marguerite Fresneau, Liszt’s mistress.Between the dueling forces is the man Jules-Marie Monaitre—the cynical betrayer-collaborator, the man of Vichy who thinks he can trade “masters” as casually as mistresses. The Monaitres, the Liszts made French North Africa a wilderness of subtly hazardous intrigue.Upon entering Algiers, Wolff is sent to arrest the Nazi Armistice Commission that had been “legally” looting the colony. One man is missing, Liszt, of Franco’s staff, whom Wolff knew by reputation during his days with the Loyalists in Spain. Liszt is a Junker, contemptuous of Nazi party hacks, with German superiority and destiny deeply rooted in his blood and background. To Wolff Liszt becomes the embodiment of the enemy, martially and emotionally.A Discord of Trumpets: An Autobiography
By Claud Cockburn. 2017
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A LEGENDARY NEWSPAPERMAN WHO IS NAMED CLAUD COCKBURN (pronounced Coburn) and who has been called many things…
(most of the pronounced abusively) by well-known personages all over the world for a quarter of a century.For some years before World War II he was the diplomatic correspondent of the (London) “Daily Worker.” For even more years he was a foreign correspondent of “The Times” (also of London).He founded and wrote “The Week,” a mimeographed anti-Fascist periodical which he says “was unquestionably the nastiest-looking bit of work that ever dropped onto a breakfast table.” It started with seven subscribers and in two years numbered among its readers most of the diplomats of Europe, many bankers and senators, Charlie Chaplin, King Edward VIII and the Nizam of Hyderabad.Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin once listed him as one of the 269 most dangerous Reds alive. In the same week, a Czech Communist named Otto Katz was hanged in Prague after confessing that he had been recruited to the cause of anti-Communism by Colonel Cockburn of the British Intelligence Service.Here is what the man himself says about how funny, how tragic and how fascinating he found life in London, Berlin, New York and Washington in the years between two world wars. Some of these stories have appeared in “Punch,” but this is a complete text of what the author has so far written down about himself and his legend. It is full of wit, and irreverence, and surprising joyfulness. It is a little like the glass of champagne the author learned to appreciate in “the little moment which remains between the crisis and the catastrophe.”