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|  | The House by the Sea by Rebecca C. Fromer
In the years before the second world war the city of Salonika in Greece was a center of Sephardic life and culture. Greek Jews were occupied in seamanship, exports and imports, wineries, weaving, law, medicine, scholarship, and more. They were grocers, tailors, bookkeepers, salesmen, and laborers. But during the war, when Greece was occupied first by Italy and then by Germany, its Jewish population was systematically exterminated. Almost ninety percent of the population was killed, mostly in Nazi concentration camps, making it the most devastated of all the Jewish communities of Europe. One who survived was Elias Aelion, whose story here is told. So complete was the genocide that few Jewish voices remained to speak of the terrible loss, and as a result the Holocaust in Greece has remained unknown to most people. Now Rebecca Fromer, a leading authority on the subject, tells the vivid story of Elias's experiences, and through them the larger story of the tragedy of the Greek Holocaust. Elias was a Jew from Salonika, a sergeant in the Greek forces defeated by Germans at the battle of Klisura. He survived by escaping to Athens and finding refuge there. Against the horror of the Holocaust, The House by the Sea recalls his childhood in a house in Salonika that was filled with people and laughter . It was a happy time now lost forever: ninety-six percent of the Jews in Salonika perished, including all of Elias's family. His story is the story of lost innocence, rich with details and poignant with feeling. It is the story of an entire people cruelly destroyed, a story that must be heard so that it may never again be forgotten. AUTHOR: Rebecca C. Fromer
PUBLISHER: Mercury House
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Classic Savannah by Van J. Martin, William R. Mitchell
Bill Mitchell introduces the reader to the English Georgian city of Savanna, Georgia, with an essay using a chronological succession of bird's-eye renderings and photographs to examine how the inner-city plan originated and developed, and how it remains the classic core of a living city.The succeeding sections contain an extensive series of articles, profusely illustrated with color photographs by Van Jones Martin, showing individual Savannah homes. AUTHOR: Van J. Martin, William R. Mitchell
PUBLISHER: Golden Coast Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Crazy Horse by Anne M. Todd
Description not available.A biography of the Ogala leader who fought for the rights of Native Americans and who led the defeat of General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. AUTHOR: Anne M. Todd
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Tales from a Child Enemy by Ursula Duba
Ursula Duba was born in Cologne, Germany, at the outbreak of World War II. She grew up in postwar Germany and, at age nineteen, during a trip abroad, on a blind date with a Jewish boy, found out about the atrocities her people committed during the Thousand Year Reich. What she learned changed her relationship with her family and with her country forever. In these deceptively simple, evocative, and unforgettable narrative poems, Duba tells of a child subjected to nonstop bombing, hunger, and family turmoil; of a girl who grows up hearing the constant lament of the suffering inflicted on Germany; and of a young woman who, thirteen years after the end of the war, learns of the Holocaust, of her country's complicity in it and denial of responsibility for it. Other poems tell of her family and countrymen who consider her interest in the truth a betrayal. Interwoven with these are the wrenching stories of the Holocaust survivors and their children who were her neighbors in an Eastern European neighborhood in Brooklyn in the mid-sixties. Duba's confrontation with her heritage is unflinching and the stories hard to forget. AUTHOR: Ursula Duba
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The American Frontier by William C. Davis
The author of The Fighting Men of the Civil War now masterfully chronicles the grand history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, expansion, conflict, and settlement. AUTHOR: William C. Davis
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Citizens & Cannibals by Eli Sagan
Why did the French Revolution, informed by Enlightenment principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, end in the Great Reign of Terror? How could once moral citizens transform themselves into bloodthirsty guillotine cannibals bent on slaughtering their political opponents? For generations, these questions have mystified historians. Until now. In CITIZENS & CANNIBALS, noted scholar Eli Sagan argues that France's failed evolution into a modern state introduced to the world a previously unknown scourge with catastrophic consequences: ideological terror. France's passage into social and political modernity held for its citizens both great promise and great anxiety. Sagan analyzes this anxiety and demonstrates why the ensuing ideological terror is common to many societies in transition, including the transformations of Weimar to Nazi Germany, Czarist to Soviet Russia, and agrarian to Communist China. While the French Revolution may have introduced ideological terror to the world, Sagan makes it clear that Hitler, Stalin, and other dictators have perpetuated its existence time after time. In fact, Sagan concludes that the seeds of ideological terror remain present in all modernizing societies, at all times, and if given the proper conditions they will germinate in a very predictable way. As in his previous books, Sagan explores the past to illuminate the political strengths and moral shortcomings of all democratic societies, past, present, and future. With this brilliant new analysis of the French Revolution, he reminds us once again that the past can still teach us a great deal about our modern predicament-specifically, why all political progress must come at grave cost. CITIZENS & CANNIBALS is a rigorous work of history and profound psychological insight that offers readers the most comprehensive explanation of the great ambiguities and contradictions of the modern world. AUTHOR: Eli Sagan
PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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