Old Is Gold

Author: Edward T. O'DonnellPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 10/31/2017Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781665241793About the AuthorO'Donnell, Edward T.: - Edward T. O'Donnell is an associate professor of American history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of 1001 Things Everyone Should...

The gripping story of the author's aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into...

In 1940, the German sons and daughters of infamous Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at...

The true story from the major motion picture In Darkness, official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought...

As World War 2 progressed, the Okma family took six Jewish refugees into their house, hiding them in a secret room behind their fireplace. The youngest daughter, Kieks, joined the Resistance, delivering illegal newspapers, guiding British parachutists around The Hague and preparing safe houses...

HOW AMERICA WON THE RACE TO THE MOON! In this fascinating history of the Apollo 11 mission, the Associated Press chronicles America's journey to the moon. In 1957 the Soviet Union sent Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into space. America took up the challenge...

The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands--an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon that preserved the peace of...

The 1916 Rising was about much, much more than the GPO. Around the city, many volunteers and British soldiers were killed and wounded fighting in vicious urban warfare. One of the many forgotten struggles centred on North King Street and the Four Courts and,...

*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingToday the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 "winning" the Race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition...

Author: Ernest R. MayPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 02/13/1975Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.37w x 0.53dISBN: 9780195018905This title is not returnable

"A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of communism." -- Marx & EngelsThe Manifesto of the Communist Party, one of the most important political documents in the history of the world, begins with the prophetic words "A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of communism." This...

In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from where she...

1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter way, swayed the course of our nation. 1831 was one of...

London's suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau--an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic...

The Andrews Sisters and The USO Stars in World War IIAuthor: Maxene Andrews, Bill GilbertPublisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationPublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 292Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66dISBN: 9780758214492This title is not returnable

"A brisk historical tour of the marketing and selling of the small principality of Monaco and its famous city...A well-researched, dramatic rags-to-riches urban tale" (Kirkus Reviews) of Monte Carlo's rise from small principality to prosperous resort town of the 1920s. Monte Carlo has long...

Two men. Their first mission. The fate of Europe hangs in the balance.They met at Harvard and fell in love. Now, they are headed behind enemy lines.Will and Thomas, freshly christened agents in America's newly established Office of Strategic Services, are dropped into occupied...

Respected journalist Robert MacNeil did not receive a personal response from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he wrote to him in 1942 as an eleven-year-old boy living in Nova Scotia. He did, however, receive a personal letter and a large gift from the American...

The ultimate Hollywood story revealed: the sizzling relationship between Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of America's most influential political family, and Gloria Swanson, one of the most prominent silent film stars of her day. Gloria and Joe were in love with each other and with the...

Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship...