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|  | Witness by Shiva Kumar, Greene
Description not available.A collection of twenty-seven eyewitness Holocaust accounts, gathered from the Yale University Fortunoff Video Archive, the first survivor video-testimony project, offers first-hand narratives from Jews and non-Jews, GIs, and others who experienced the horrors of Nazism. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Shiva Kumar, Greene
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Operations in North African Waters, October 1942-June 1943 by Samuel Eliot Morison
Description not available.Recounts the role of the United States in World War II at sea, from encounters in the Atlantic before the country entered the war to the surrender of Japan. AUTHOR: Samuel Eliot Morison
PUBLISHER: Book Sales, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
In Reinhold Niebuhr's words, Perry Miller, like all great historians, was both scientist and artist. That combination is nowhere better seen than in this book, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History. AUTHOR: Perry Miller
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Wings of the Luftwaffe by Eric Brown
Brown had the extraordinary experience of testing more than 50 captured German aircraft types and interrogating German aviation experts. He describes the background and characteristics of the top aircraft in vivid detail. AUTHOR: Eric Brown
PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Fifty-Year War by Norman Friedman
For fifty years the Cold War shaped our lives and divided our world and its influence will continue for decades to come. While other authors have portrayed the period as an uneasy peace enforced by the mutually assured destruction of atomic and nuclear weapons, Norman Friedman has synthesized a vast array of information from a diverse spectrum of sources on both sides of the Iron Curtain and come up with some foundation-shattering new conclusions. His book is already being considered a landmark study by those privileged to see the work in progress. The renowned defense analyst has fired a devastating shot over the bow of conventional thinking and set a very high mark for those who follow him in attempting to make sense of one of the most complex and fascinating epochs of world history. With a depth and scope of analysis unseen in other literature on the subject, Friedman dashes the prevailing notion that the Cold War was but a loose succession of related events and shows instead that it was World War III conducted at a much slower pace than a hot war, allowing for the enduring technological, cultural, and social effects of the past five decades. He is the first to amalgamate geopolitics with the technical and military developments of the last fifty years. Avoiding the trap of blaming it all on ideology, Friedman connects each side's politico-military strategy and central defining character. Among the many questions he discusses are: Was it communism versus capitalism or just old-fashioned Russian imperialism cloaked in a largely irrelevant ideology? Did the West win or did inherent flaws doom the Soviet system from the start? A recognized authority on twentieth-century warfare anddefense strategy, Friedman is uniquely qualified to interpret the importance of geopolitical events and their influence on the future. His ability to convey matters of great complexity with ease and interest is nearly without parallel, and his profound insights will prove useful to specia AUTHOR: Norman Friedman
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Appalachia by John Alexander Williams
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart. Williams begins his story in the colonial era and describes the half-century of bloody warfare as migrants from Europe and their American-born offspring fought and eventually displaced Appalachia's Native American inhabitants. He depicts the evolution of a backwoods farm-and-forest society, its divided and unhappy fate during the Civil War, and the emergence of a new industrial order as railroads, towns, and extractive industries penetrated deeper and deeper into the mountains. Finally, he considers Appalachia's fate in the twentieth century, when it became the first American region to suffer widespread deindustrialization, and examines the partial renewal created by federal intervention and a small but significant wave of in-migration. Throughout the book, a wide range of Appalachian voices enlivens the analysis and reminds us of the importance of storytelling in the ways the people of Appalachia define themselves and their region. AUTHOR: John Alexander Williams
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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