In the years following World War II, as the United States began to focus on the global containment of communism, few regions of the world were considered as much of a potential battleground as Southea
As World War II was ending, Alfred Leatherbarrow, a wounded Canadian veteran, and his nurse, Margaret, fell in love, married, bought their dream farm—and discovered that their crops would not grow. Th
After World War II, banks and other mortgage lenders began requiring insurance to protect them against flawed or defective real estate titles. Over the past sixty years, the title insurance industry h
This highly acclaimed study depicts and evaluates in an original and imaginative fashion the a??Golden Agea?? of Viennese Jewry during the long reign of Emperor Franz Joseph II. Based on exhaustive an
Juan Pujol, a young Spanish anti-fascist, ultimately became Agent GARBO - the greatest double-agent of World War II. Initially recruited by German intelligence, GARBO came to London after a series of
Marie Claire, a young French Jew during World War II, is rescued by two Belgian nuns after her village is bombed and is taken to a convent, where miracles begin to occur, leaving everyone hiding at th
An analytical history of a half-century of gay sex and love in America ranges from World War II to the present, discussing the repression of the 1950s, the Stonewall uprising and its influence, the he
We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face
International migration is often considered a relatively new development in world history. Yet, while there has been a surge in migration since World War II, the worldwide movement of peoples is a lon
Jewish survivors of World War II tell the stories of some of the non-Jews who helped them escape the Nazis in France, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Norway, and Denmark
Tells the story of the senator from South Carolina who helped pass New Deal legislation and went on to become Supreme Court justice, economic director during World War II, Truman's secretary of state,
An account of the personalities and official practices of the two wartime leaders, of the relationship between them, and of the early events of World War II with which they contended and which shaped
