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A daring venture : Rudolf Hess and the ill-fated peace mission of 1941 / by Raina, Peter, 1935-

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Houses on the sand? pacifist denominations in Nazi Germany / by Lichti, James Irvin, 1953-

Subjects: “…Peace Religious aspects Christianity.…”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt the New Deal and war / by Heale, M. J.

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The Most Unsordid Act : Lend-Lease, 1939-1941 / by Kimball, Warren F.

Table of Contents: “…"A terrible, stultifying vacuum" ; "God, love and Anglo-American relations": the French crisis ; Of garden hoses and other stories: summer and fall 1940 -- The crisis faced and solved: November 1940-March1941. "Money-above all, ready money" ; The "shoot the works" bill: lend-lease, inception to proposal ; "God save America from a king named George"-or Franklin: the Congressional debate ; "From something like disaster": the passage of the Lend-Lease Act ; "Like hitting wads of cotton wool": conclusions.…”
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The two faces of liberalism how the Hoover-Roosevelt debate shapes the 21st century /

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A fatal balancing act : the dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945 / by Meyer, Beate, 1952-

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Each child is my only one : Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the portrait of a mother and rabbi's wife / by Gillis-Carlebach, Miriam

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The wow climax tracing the emotional impact of popular culture / by Jenkins, Henry, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…: the scandal of Lupe Velez -- "Going bonkers!" : children, play, and Pee-Wee -- "Complete freedom of movement" : video games as gendered play spaces -- "Her suffering aristocratic majesty" : the sentimental value of Lassie.…”
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Veterans of Future Wars a study in student activism / by Whisenhunt, Donald W.

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Reconsidering Roosevelt on race how the presidency paved the road to Brown / by McMahon, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…The day they drove old Dixie down -- The incongruities of reform : rights-centered liberalism and legal realism in the early New Deal years -- FDR's constitutional vision and the defeat of the court-packing plan : the modern presidency and the enemies of institutional reform -- Approving legislation for the people, preserving liberties--almost rewriting laws : the politics of creating the Roosevelt court -- A constitutional purge : Southern democracy, lynch law, and the Roosevelt Justice Department -- The commitment continues : Truman, Eisenhower, and the civil rights decisions -- The road the court trod.…”
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Black culture and the New Deal the quest for civil rights in the Roosevelt era / by Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca

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A quiet victory for Latino rights FDR and the controversy over "whiteness" / by Lukens, Patrick D., 1966-

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The Dixiecrat revolt and the end of the solid South, 1932-1968 by Frederickson, Kari A.

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Hitler and the Nazis a history in documents / by Crew, David F., 1946-

“…Pages from history.…”
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New Perspectives on Kristallnacht : After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison /

Table of Contents: “…A question of gender! : spaces of violence and reactions to Kristallnacht in Jewish-Gentile families /…”
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Against immediate evil : American internationalists and the four freedoms on the eve of World War II / by Johnstone, Andrew (Andrew E.)

Table of Contents: “…The Sino-Japanese War and the American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression -- The coming of war and the American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts -- The phony war and the Non-Partisan Committee for Peace through Revision of the Neutrality Law -- Blitzkrieg and the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies -- The destroyer bases agreement and the Century group -- Maximum aid and the battle for Lend-Lease -- Deliver the goods and Fight for Freedom -- The Battle of the Atlantic from Barbarossa to Pearl Harbor.…”
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The good fight continues World War II letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade /

Table of Contents: “…Before Pearl Harbor -- At war with the army -- Problems in red and black -- In the combat theaters -- Premature antifascists and the postwar world.…”
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Royals and the Reich the princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany / by Petropoulos, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…The interconnectedness of the nobility: strategies to preserve privilege through the Great War -- The Princes Von Hessen during the Weimar Republic: tribulations, the high life, and Fascist flirtations -- Nazi high society: making Hitler "Salonfähig" and helping the Nazis to power -- A place in the Reich: princely careers in the Nazi state -- Roles in an increasingly radical regime -- Miscalculation and misfortune -- Postwar justice: denazification and (partial) dispossession -- Rebuilding a life: Schloss Fasanerie, financial viability, and burdens of the past -- Understanding German princes in the twentieth century.…”
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Freedom betrayed Herbert Hoover's secret history of the Second World War and its aftermath / by Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Table of Contents: “…The opportunity to make lasting peace comes to Franklin Roosevelt ; section 10. The road to war -- v. 2, section 11. …”
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The Hump America's strategy for keeping China in World War II / by Plating, John D. (John David), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…From the Marco Polo Bridge to ABC Ferry Command -- Terrain, weather, pilots, and planes -- "Barnstorming" over the Hump -- The Hump and an ascendant CBI air strategy -- "Ten thousand tons by Christmas" -- The Hump goes to war -- The Hump becomes an airline -- The end of the Hump -- Notes.…”
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