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  • Beneath the Dust of Time

    A History of Ancient Languages and Names of Peoples and Places.

    Beneath the Dust of Time is an unconventional combination of history and the etymology of names. It was inspired and guided by two new paradigms. The first is the "Sahara hypothesis." This theory postulates a historical migration from North Africa to Europe, the Middle East and deep into Central Asia thousands of years ago, namely, when the end of the last Ice Age led to the emergence of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Class War 1914-1918

    Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and national borders.For European statesmen, a large-scale war could give their countries new colonial territories, important to growing capitalist economies. For the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Big Business and Hitler

    For big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were good news. Business was bad in the 1930s, and for multinational corporations Germany was a bright spot in a world suffering from the Great Depression. As Jacques R. Pauwels explains in this book, corporations were delighted with the profits that came from re-arming Germany, and then supplying both sides ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Good War

    America in the Second World War, revised edition

    In the spirit of historians Howard Zinn, Gwynne Dyer, and Noam Chomsky, Jacques Pauwels focuses on the big picture. Like them, he seeks to find the real reasons for the actions of great powers and great leaders. Familiar Second World War figures from Adolf Hitler to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin are portrayed in a new light in this book. The decisions of Hitler and his Nazi government to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    The Road to 1914

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Germany

    1800 to the Present

    Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engagingly written account of German history from 1800 to the present.Provides readers with a long view of modern German history, revealing its continuities and changesFeatures updated and extended coverage of German social change and modernization, class, religion, and ... Read more

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  • The Hitler State

    Interpretative study of the Hitler state now available in English. An important contribution to the study of totalitarian states. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Fall of Civilizations

    Stories of Greatness and Decline

    by Paul Cooper ...
    **"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."―**The TimesBased on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and ... Read more

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  • Savage Continent

    Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

    by Keith Lowe ...
    **Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize"A superb and immensely important book."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...**The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe, landscapes ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Splendid Blond Beast

    Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century

    Series Book 24 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    From a National Jewish Book Award–winning author: The "revelatory and shocking" investigation into the CIA's liberation of Nazi war criminals ( Kirkus Reviews).How did Gen, Karl Wolff, one of the highest-ranking members of the Nazi Party's Waffen-SS, who personally oversaw the deportation of three hundred thousand Jews to the Treblinka extermination camps, escape prosecution at the Nuremberg ... Read more

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  • Orderly and Humane

    The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

    by R. M. Douglas ...
    The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: "a major achievement" ( New Republic).Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million ... Read more

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  • The Coming of the Third Reich

    Series Book 1 - The Third Reich Trilogy
    **The definitive account of Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's People"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement"Impressive in its command of an immense literature, perceptive in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD