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English
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A cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States first published in 1935. During the presidential election of 1936, Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, observes with dismay that many of the people he knows support the candidacy of a fascist, Berzelius Windrip. When Windrip wins the election, he forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
449 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters.
Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is involved in espionage. Only when Stratton's path crosses...
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English
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"Based on a true story, The Sacco Gang is a "wild west" tale of two brothers who battle both the State and a Mafia empire in 1920s Italy. Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong ideas about Socialism and the State. Their lives change radically one morning when their father, Luigi Sacco, receives an anonymous letter from the local Mafia demanding protection money. Luigi tells the police of the extortion...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen two-disc collector's ed
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (315 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Italiano
Description
Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers
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English
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Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society.
In 1933, Diana met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler. They became close friends and he attended her wedding as the guest of honor. During the war, the Mosleys' association with Hitler led them to be arrested
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Universal
Language
English
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"After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation"--Container.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2011, c2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kevin "Fishy" Broom has his nickname for a reason -- a rare genetic condition that makes his sweat and other bodily excretions smell like rotting fish. Consequently, he rarely ventures out of the apartment where he deals online in Nazi memorabilia. But when he stumbles into a crime scene, he finds himself drawn into an investigation of a pair of small-time players in pre-WWII history. First, there's Philip Erskine, a fascist gentleman entomologist...
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Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun Machine Who are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in the name of revolution? The Futurists! Utopian pirate warriors of the diminutive Regency of Carnaro, scourge of the Adriatic Sea. Mortal enemies of communists, capitalists, and even fascists (to whom they are not entirely unsympathetic). The ambitious Soldier-Citizens of Carnaro are led by a brilliant and...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxii, 435 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Susan Ronald, acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germany. Hitler said, "I am convinced that propaganda is an essential means to achieve one's aims." Enlisting Europe's aristocracy, international industrialists, and the political elite in Britain and America, Hitler spun a treacherous tale everyone wanted...
11) Deviation
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 347 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in Italy in 1979, Luce D'Eramo's Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into a complex and intricately structured work of fiction, which has claims to standing among the greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century. Lucia is a young Italian girl from a bourgeois fascist family. In the early 1940s, when she first hears about the atrocities...
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1930s Australia A disgraced Minister, an unidentified corpse, and an scorned ex-flame all bring their own special type of bedlam in this newest addition to this politically thrilling historical mystery series by Sulari Gentill. When Rowland Sinclair volunteers his services as a pilot to fly the renowned international peace advocate, Egon Kisch, between Fremantle and Melbourne, he is unaware of how dangerous the mission will be. Sinclair not only...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
American genealogist Jefferson Tayte is good at finding people who don't want to be found, but he is unable to uncover his own family history- until now. Clues left to him by his late mentor takes him deep into the sinister secrets of World War II Germany, and to those who wish to keep those secrets buried.
14) Adolf Hitler
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Series
Publisher
EDC
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, ports. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 517 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through the story of one exemplary fascist-a war hero turned commander of Mussolini's Black Shirts-the award-winning author of How Fascism Ruled Women reveals how the personal became political in the fascist quest for manhood and power. When Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini's handsome political enforcer, married a striking young American opera star, his good fortune seemed settled. The wedding was a carefully stage-managed affair, capped with a blessing...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 454 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This dramatic exposé of Allied subterfuge and betrayal uncovers the treachery of undercover fascists and American Nazi spy rings during the height of World War II"--Jacket flap.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 287 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pinerolo, Italy; April 1945. At a conference in support of Fascism, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man--a political activist or a terrorist, depending on your perspective--interviews survivors from the conference, to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was the writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have...
19) Berlin express
Series
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed amid the actual bombed out ruins of Frankfurt and Berlin after World War II, this film recounts the dangerous attempts to unify Germany as four post-war heroes from Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. battle die-hard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist dictator, and Claretta (or Clara) Petacci, his much-younger lover. Shot dead by Italian partisans after attempting to flee the country in 1945, the couple's bodies were then hanged upside down in Milan's main square in ignominious public display. This provocative book is the first to mine Clara's extensive diaries, family correspondence, and other sources to discover...
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