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Item No.
145:
Arthur Ponsonby: Falsehood in Wartime. Propaganda Lies of the First World War Classic debunking of the propaganda lies politicians and press manufactured about the enemy to stampede their own citizens into he "war to end all wars." British MP Ponsonby reveals how all the belligerents, but foremost his own country, faked documents, falsified photos, and invented horrifying atrocity stories. Authoritatively debunks numerous wartime hoaxes, including such durable tales as: the bayoneted Belgian babies, the German "corpse factory," "The Crucified Canadian," the martyrdom of Nurse Cavell, and the "passenger ship" Lusitania. In the publisher's foreword, historian Mark Weber points out fascinating parallels with World War II atrocity tales. |
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(1980)
, ISBN:
939484390
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Item No.
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Arthur Goddard: Harry Elmer Barnes -- Learned Crusader. The New History in Action. This is the affectionate tribute and commentary by an assemblage of students, literary and academic colleagues and old friends with a substantial debt to a memorable influence upon their lives, Harry Elmer Barnes. It is no traditional festschrift, wherein a long-respected scholar is honored by a symposium consisting of the efforts of a group of favorite graduate students. There is everything here, from documented essays to kindly and mellow memoirs, all dealing with significant aspects of one of the truly unique influences in the lit¬erary, intellectual and academic world of the last half century. In the field of testimonial vol¬umes there is nothing quite like it. There are estimates and appraisals ranging from nostalgic recollections by boyhood friends to technical studies by men of immense repute in several fields of scholarship from two generations of college and uni¬versity life. There is a varied group of analyses by professional associ¬ates in a number of areas of enterprise and admiring and respectful impressions of Barnes by some of his students over a span of thirty years. The entire effort is il¬lustrated by a portfolio of photo¬graphs selected from a voluminous collection assembled over the years by the subject of the tribute, who has been characterized variously over the years as he learned "crusader," "the last of the universal scholars," and "the grand monarch of the anti-liars of the twentieth century." The subjects covered and the personalities mentioned make this one of the most valuable insights into many of the controversies and contests of this century, centered around the figure of one of those personally involved in most of them. This is not a book which is in¬tended to be read from end to end at a single sitting, but one to be dipped into from time to time at various places, which tends to make its scope even more impres¬sive. It will above all emphasize the achievements of an indefatig¬able, erudite and many-sided man. Joseph Wood Krutch Leslie A. White Huntington Cairns Merle Curti Harold U. Faulkner Gene M. Gressley
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(1968)
, ISBN:
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Item No.
130:
Harry Elmer Barnes: In Quest of Truth and Justice: Debunking the War Guilt Myth The father of American historical revisionism's spirited examination of the actual causes and fateful consequences of World War I, as well as of the historical controversy that exploded around a new challenge -- historical revisionism, led by Harry Elmer Barnes -- in the decade following the war. Barnes gathered many of the insights to be found in this book in personal interviews conducted with many of the leading figures of the war -- including Kaiser Wilhelm, Admiral Tirpitz, and a host of military and political leaders from both the Entente and the Central Powers -- to provide an unequaled "you are there" perspective on the twentieth century's most important war. In Quest of Truth and Just is still a vital book on a ruinous conflict that might have been avoided, and on a movement, historical revisionism, that continues to hold the key to political wisdom and, therefore, to peace among nations. |
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(1972)
, ISBN:
879260122
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Item No.
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Richard Blake: Orphans of Versailles. The Germans in Western Poland, 1918-1939 A balanced, comprehensive, historically informed study that answers one of the key questions regarding the outbreak of World War II: Were the grievances of the German minority in Poland real or an invention of 'Nazi' propaganda? Orphans of Versailles examines the lot of the more than one million Germans who came under Polish rule between the world wars, and documents a pervasive policy of mistreatment of the German minority by Polish authorities. Professor Blanke explains the historical background to the dispute; the injustice of Versailles; the role of the victorious Entente powers, above all France, in tolerating postwar Polish attacks in disputed areas; the rigged results of the Upper Silesian plebiscite; and the myriad ways, large and small, in which Poland's Germans were harried and discriminated against between 1918 and 1939. Orphans demonstrates Hitler's long reluctance to exploit the woes of the German minority in Poland, and concludes with a study of atrocities inflicted on Poland's ethnic Germans at the outset of World War II which finds that, despite official claims, the crimes were both actual and unjustified. Sympathetic to Poles and Germans, unsympathetic to the efforts of both sides to oppress and despoil each other's nationals, Orphans of Versailles is a humane and scholarly look at a subject that remains, unfortunately (thanks to recent episodes of ethnic cleansing), all too relevant. |
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6x9", hardcover, bibl., index
(1993)
, ISBN:
813118034
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Item No.
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Don Heddesheimer: The First Holocaust. Jewish Fund Raising Campaigns with Holocaust Claims During and After World War I. 2nd edition. Six million Jews in Poland and Russia threatened with imminent holocaust: this allegation was appearing in such sources as The New York Times -- but the year was 1919! Don Heddesheimer's compact but substantive First Holocaust documents post-WWI propaganda that claimed East European Jewry was on the brink of annihilation, regularly invoking the talismanic six million figure. It gives details how that propaganda was used to agitate for minority rights for Jews in Poland, and for Zionism and Bolshevism in Poland and Russia; and demonstrates how Jewish fundraising operations in America raised vast sums in the name of feeding Polish and Russian Jews, then funneled much of the money to Zionist and Communist constructive undertakings -- including banks, unions, and kibbutzes -- rather than to starving Jews. The First Holocaust, which includes eye-opening testimony from American diplomats and military attachés stationed in Poland and Russia that contradicted Jewish persecution claims, is a valuable study of American Jewish institutional operations at a fateful juncture in Jewish and European history, an incisive examination of a cunningly contrived campaign of atrocity and extermination propaganda, two decades before the alleged WWII Holocaust -- and an indispensable addition to every revisionist's library. |
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6x9", pb., ill., bibl., index
(2005)
, ISBN:
1591480035
, ISSN: 1529-7748
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Item No.
117:
Robert Wilton: The Last Days of the Romanovs: How Tsar Nicholas II and Russia's Imperial Family Were Murdered Robert Wilton's study of the grisly murders of Tsar Nicholas II and his family by Jewish Bolsheviks in a cellar in Ekaterinburg, Siberia, July 16-17, 1918, is still the most riveting account of a crime that, in its brutal slaughter of the saintly Nicholas, his consort Alexandra, their five young children, court physician, and three loyal servants foreshadowed the horrors of Communism in grisly detail. Wilton, a seasoned journalist who covered Russia for the London Times from 1902 to 1919, reached Ekaterinburg just days after the murders and was the first Western correspondent privy to the investigation conducted by anti-Communist Russian authorities. While Wilton lacked access to contemporary Bolshevik documents, the opening of the Soviet archives in the 1990s has only confirmed his assignment of responsibility to Lenin and his Jewish henchman, Yakov Sverdlov. The Last Days of the Romanovs remains the classic unraveling of a murder mystery without parallel; this edition includes the famous lists of Soviet commissars that documented the prevalence of Jews among the original Bolsheviks, a warning ignored in the democratic West until Solzhenitsyn's writings. |
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(1993)
, ISBN:
939484471
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Item No.
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Niall Ferguson: The Pity of War. Explaining World War I Niall Ferguson, a distinguished Oxford scholar, makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War (WWI) was entirely England's fault. Ferguson proves that Germany had a justifiable fear of Russian and French militarism and was merely making a preemptive strike against France after having been attacked by France's ally Russia in August 1914. Britain's entry into the war transformed a continental conflict into a world war, which the English then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. Ferguson argues that, had Britain sacrificed Belgium to Germany, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would never have happened. Germany, he continues, would have created a united European state, and Britain could have remained a superpower. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces. |
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5.25x8", pb., b/w. Ill., bibl., index
(1999)
, ISBN:
465057128
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Item No.
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Floyd Gibbons: The Red Knight of Germany. The Story of Baron von Richthofen The "Red Baron" has become an enduring and popular symbol—from mass media ad campaigns to comic strips—of the devil-may-care aerial gallantry which ruled the skies of the Great War. This despite the roots of the real Red Baron, Freiherr Manfred von Richthofen, in the proud German Junker class, the enemy Americans learned to "love to hate" during and after the war. Who was this legend really, and how did he—not Rickenbacker or Guynemer, Hawker or McCudden—become the deathless embodiment of the fighter ace of the First World War? Floyd Gibbons' classic biography, first published only nine years after the guns fell silent, reveals the man—flesh and blood, heart and soul—behind the myth. Working form original documents, including letters and journals entrusted to him by von Richthofen's mother, Gibbons recreates, through the pen of the Red Baron, how it must have been in the dogfights above the trenches, on the ground in the desperate, nonchalant camaraderie of men whose every flight might be their last, and in the highest councils of the German state and military. The Red Knight of Germany itemizes and documents every mission, every victory, of this prodigy of aerial combat, in matchless writing worthy of its mighty hero. Who was the Red Baron? Read this book and know: "He shot down eighty fighting planes. He matched his life against that of any man. He fought, not with hate, but with love for fighting. It was his joy, his sport, his passion. To him to dare and to die was to live ..." "He won the admiration and respect of his enemies. His instinct and duty it was to kill them, he did ..." "Wounded and decorated, he became the guest of kings and queens. Boys and the youth of a nation made him their idol, cheered him, followed him on the street." "He was young and blond, shy and handsome, proud and serious. Girls by the thousands worshipped his picture and filled his mail with letters by the sackful. One of them he loved. He wanted to make her his wife but he did not want to make her his widow. He knew he was going to be killed." "In one of the greatest air battles in the history of the world, he went down, still fighting, still killing. He died a national hero at the head of the fighting men in the service of his country. He was buried by his enemies with respect and military honors in unstinted recognition of his great courage, his sportsmanship, and his tireless, relentless spirit." "His name was Manfred von Richthofen." |
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6.5x9.5", hc
(Nov. 1991)
, ISBN:
093948238X
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