Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Disobeying Hitler

    German Resistance in the Last Year of WWII

    'A chilling look at Nazi Germany in collapse' Globe and Mail'Excellent' Evening Standard | 'Fascinating' Ben MacintyreRaze Paris to the ground. Burn the bridges. Destroy all industry.These were just a few of the insane orders issued by Hitler in the closing months of the Second World War, as the Allies made their unstoppable advance on Germany.Had it not been for the determination and brave... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fire and Fury

    The Allied Bombing of Germany 1942-1945

    'Insightful, rigorously researched and splendidly written' Donald L. Miller, author of Masters of the AirDuring World War II, Allied bombing obliterated every major German and Japanese city. Before the dropping of the atomic bombs, conventional bombing had killed approximately 400,000 Germans and 330,00 Japanese, the vast majority civilians.Two-thirds of Germans who died under the bombs did so in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • War, Work, and Want

    How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution

    An expansive history of how an economic shock a half century ago created a world that is addicted to mass migration. The oil shock of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American and European economic growth to an end; it destabilized Middle Eastern politics; and it set in train processes that led to over one hundred million unexpected--and unwanted--immigrants. In War, Work, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Triumph Over Trauma

    Edited by Randall Hansen ...
    Imagine that you had no ill effects from past trauma: no depression, no addiction, no thoughts of suicide. Imagine there are substances that have been used as healing medicines for centuries - substances which have been illegal in the U.S. and around the world for more than 5 decades because of questionable politics of the War on Drugs.Thousands of research studies regarding the potential benefits ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War

    Narratives from Europe and East Asia

    Series series German and European Studies
    The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession, that occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructedin the twentieth century in the aftermath of these experiences. The collection explores the concept of ... Read more

    $56.89 USD

  • Sterilized by the State

    Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America

    This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, King and Hansen show how both superintendents at homes for the 'feebleminded' and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Disobeying Hitler

    German Resistance After Valkyrie

    On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was executed in the courtyard of the Third Reich's military headquarters in Berlin for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. A member of the unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Nazi government -- codenamed Operation Valkyrie -- Stauffenberg was shot by a firing squad along with his co-conspirators, and their bodies were dumped in a ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Disobeying Hitler

    German Resistance After Valkyrie

    On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was executed in the courtyard of the Third Reich's military headquarters in Berlin for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. A member of the unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Nazi government -- codenamed Operation Valkyrie -- Stauffenberg was shot by a firing squad along with his co-conspirators, and their bodies were dumped in a ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Migration, Nation States, and International Cooperation

    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    Against a background of past, limited examples of international cooperation, and ambitious hopes for extensive future efforts, this volume puts two related questions to the empirical test: under which conditions are states prepared to cooperate over international migration, and what form - bilateral, multilateral, formal, informal - will this cooperation take? ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies

    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors making immigration one of the most difficult political debates across the West. Leading international ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Fire and Fury

    The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945

    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 2 min

    During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. But the terrible truth is that much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership, leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Road to Ruin

    the bestselling prequel to Plots and Prayers

    by Niki Savva ...
    Series Book 1 - The Road to Ruin Trilogy
    WINNER OF THE 2017 AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE 2016 MELBOURNE PRESS CLUB LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD‘There will be no wrecking, no undermining, and no sniping.’–Tony Abbott, 15 September 2015Abbott’s performances in the party-room debates on education and climate change had ranged between woeful and pathetic. He sounded desperate, he was ... Read more

    $28.69 USD