History History The Death of Democracy : Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
The Ghost Ships of Archangel : The Arctic Voyage
by Benjamin Carter Hett
available in June, paperback, St. Martin’s Griffin
That Defied the Nazis
by William Geroux
available now, hardcover, Viking
In 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic are separated from their convoy and head north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes and giant bergs. Despite the risks, they have a better chance of survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, a fleet of 35 cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel.
A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time.
Auschwitz :
Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.
The Bastard Brigade :
edited by Robert Jan van Pelt, with Luis Ferreiro and Miriam Greenbaum
The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
available now, hardcover, Abbeville Press
by Sam Kean
available in July, hardcover, Little, Brown and Co.
From bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb. The details of their mission rival the finest spy thriller, but it's the incredible characters — both heroes and rogues alike — who make this story sing.
The Vagabonds : The Story
More than 280 objects and images from the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp are illustrated herein. Drawn from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and other collections around the world, all are eloquent in their testimony. An authoritative yet accessible text weaves the stories behind these artifacts into an encompassing history of Auschwitz and it is an essential volume for everyone who is interested in history and its lessons.
Down the Up Staircase : Three Generations of a Harlem Family by Bruce Haynes and Syma Solovitch
of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip
available in June, paperback, Columbia University Press
by Jeff Guinn
available in July, hardcover, Simon & Schuster
The fascinating story of two American giants whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship changed. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs, butlers, and others, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America’s roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel.
The authors trace the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling threestory brownstone in Sugar Hill and captures the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the 20th century — the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements — as well as the many forces that ravaged black communities.
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