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Famine in the Soviet Ukraine 1932-1933: A Memorial Exhibition (Harvard College Library)1 review
Oksana Procyk, Leonid Heretz, ...

Harvard College Library, 1986

This book is a must to understanding the Ukrainian psyche.
This book is a catalog of the 1983 exhibition of the Harvard College Library, the Ukrainian Research Institute, and the Ukrainian Studies Fund of Harvard University which marked the 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933. As such, the book is more pictures than words, but they present a powerful case against not only the Stalinist regime, but against Stalin himself in only ... 		  
  







  
  
The Foreign Office and the famine: British documents on Ukraine and the Great Famine of 1932-1933 (Studies in ...1 review

Limestone Press, 1988

Primation about the famine-genocide of 1932-33 in Ukraine
A masterful collection of British Foreign Office documents that detail how much the British government knew about the causes and consequences of the politically engineered "Great Famine" of 1923-33 in Ukraine. This genocidal, man-made famine took the lives of several million Ukrainians, as British intelligence and diplomatic sources clearly understood, although some Western apologists and ... 		  
  







  
  
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's28 reviews

Wiley, 1997

Contemporary AND historical!Recently while doing research for an exhibition on the 1920s, I purchased this fabulous little book
Recently while doing research for an exhibition on the 1920s, I purchased this fabulous little book called Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. Historian Frederick Lewis Allen wrote it in 1931, before Prohibition was even repealed! I bought it because I wanted a contemporary perspective on the decade from someone who was there. I was astounded at his insight into a decade that he ... 		  
  







  
  
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope37 reviews
Jonathan Alter

BBC Audiobooks America, 2006

Great First 100 Days
The most interesting book on FDR I've ever read. I learned a lot more about the state of our nation when FDR was elected and what FDR did to keep our republic on a more democratic path. I'm sure our new President-elect and his staff are reading this book so they can learn how to make great things happen in Washington in only 100 days. 		  
  







  
  
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 (Galaxy Books)3 reviews
Robert Dallek

Oxford University Press, USA, 1981

An Excellent Account
An excellent account of U.S. foreign policy as waged by the Great Man Roosevelt. There are details in this book which are not found in others. Dallek is not regurgitating other writer's viewpoints. All points are lucidly explained - for instance Roosevelt's dealing's with Chaing Kai-shek and his cabinet member's - Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles... The enormous opposition Roosevelt faced from ... 		  
  







  
  
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-197237 reviews
William Manchester

Little Brown & Co (T), 1974

US History as Historical Epic in Magisterial Manchester Work
William Manchester bookends this sprawling, epic US history with two protests in the heart of Washington. He opens in 1930 at the rise of the Great Depression, with veterans across from the White House coldly shunned by President Herbert Hoover when asking for advance relief from the Great Depression, then brutally attacked by troops and national guardsmen led by Douglas MacArthur. He concludes ... 		  
  







  
  
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932 (Dear America ...22 reviews
Barry Denenberg

Scholastic Inc., 2002

A Very Interesting Story
Bess Brennan was blinded in a sledding accident and is now trying to adjust to live as things are now. Its very difficult adjustment as you'd expect. Bess goes to Perkins School, a school for the blind. A very interesting and good story. 		  
  







  
  
The use of poetry and the use of criticism,: Studies in the relation of criticism to poetry in England ([The ...1 review
T. S Eliot

Faber and Faber, limited, 1955

An Insightful Work On Poetry
Most of us are afraid of poems because as we read it, we can't seem to make head or tails as to what we have read. Therefore, for those of us who have "poem-phobia," I recommend this delightful little work. In this work, Eliot ask the question of what is poetry and the use of criticism in poetry as well as the relationship between the former and the latter. Eliot proposes to start the enquiry ... 		  
  







  
  
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-194010 reviews

Harpercollins College Div, 1963

The definitive work on the New Deal
Historian William Leuchtenburg, one of the most prominent American scholars writing about America in the 1930s, wrote "Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940" as a response to other researchers who "tended to minimize the significance of the changes wrought by the thirties." According to the author, these historians "have stressed, quite properly, the continuity between the New Deal ... 		  
  







  
  
The State of the Union2 reviews
ALBERT JAY NOCK

Liberty Press, 1991

No Better Introduction To A Supreme Bellettrist
Albert Jay Nock was perhaps one of the only three truly enduring bellettrists 20th century American letters yielded up. He deployed a truly lyric and insinuating prose style of uncommon grace and oddly puckish wit, and it served to unfurl one of the rarest of American minds - a shamelessly recalcitrant individualist whose intellectual evolution never obstructed or abrogated the core of the man: ... 		  
  







  
  
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great ...10 reviews
David E. Kyvig

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2004

A fast read, like an 8th grade social studies text
This was a great read. I like how the author highlighted the social and the economic and the cultural changes that took place during these formative years in 20th century America. You read about the genius, yet uncompromising Henry Ford, who designed the Model T, and later the Model A, but failed in his bid to create a winning farm tractor (they kept tipping over backward). You will also read ... 		  
  







  
  
New World Coming : The 1920s and the Making of Modern America11 reviews
Nathan Miller

Scribner, 2003

Fantastic introduction to the 1920's
It's an ambitious project to render a history of America in the twenties in only four hundred pages, but Nathan Miller performs the task admirably. The rise of the automobile, big business, jazz, prohibition, Coolidge prosperity, Lindbergh...any of these subjects is worthy of its own book, but Miller touches on them with a deft hand, bringing them to life with wit and enough factual content to ... 		  
  







  
  
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945--The Chronicle of a Dictatorship (4 Volume Set)2 reviews
Max Domarus

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004

National-socialism
I always wanted to know what Hitler tells to masses. I have big interest in his speeches, in his style of talking. It is a great book for me because it unclude the most important Adolf's public speeches. I enjoied reading it! 		  
  







  
  
A nation in torment;: The great American depression, 1929-1939 (A Capricorn giant)1 review
Edward Robb Ellis

Capricorn Books, 1971

Comprehensive Review of the 1930's
Ellis kept a running diary for most of his adult life. He culls much interesting information from this source as well as several better known authors in painting a vivid picture of what happened in America starting in 1929 and why. This is not to say that the book does not have some flaws. For one thing Ellis has a tendency of placing trivial comments such as "Rexford Tugwell was quite the ... 		  
  







  
  
1927: High Tide of the 1920's3 reviews
Gerald Leinwand

Basic Books, 2002

A Literary Pageant with Profound Historical Significance
Throughout U.S. history, there are certain defining years and 1927 was certainly one of them. It was situated between two World Wars, during the so-called "Golden Age of Sports" and "Golden Years of Hollywood", on the eve of the Wall Street "Crash" and subsequent "Great Depression." Arguably no other single year (before or since) embraced the scope and depth of human diversity that 1927 did. So ... 		  
  







  
  
The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 (Studies in Jewish History)1 review
Leni Yahil

Oxford University Press, USA, 1990

Full of objective facts
This is one of the best accounts of the Holocaust that I have read. It is completely objective, just leading the reader through the facts. Instead of taking the stance of "Hitler is evil and to blame for it all," the book shows the reader who all the players were, and how they were created. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants the facts. 		  
  







  
  
A Hunger Most Cruel: The Human Face of the 1932-1933 Terror-Famine in Soviet Ukraine3 reviews
Anatoliy Dimarov, Yevhen Hutsalo, ...

Language Lanterns Publications, 2002

20TH century's great tragedy rivals the Jewish Holocaust
"A Hunger Must Cruel" is a must read for anyone interested in Eastern European history, particularly the history of Ukraine. Surprisingly, very little information is available regarding the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933, but since the Ukrainian independence in 1991 the facts have started to come out. The Ukrainian famine was planned by the Soviet Union and its gang of communist ideologists, ... 		  
  







  
  
Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare1 review
Reanne Hemingway-Douglass

Fineedge.Com, 2003

Psychoanalyst goes to sea
The author and her husband undertake a trip from California around Cape Horn in a 42 foot sail boat, encounter ocean conditions that are best encountered in a book, get flipped upside down - and survive. This book combines a fascinating chronicle of a trip that would be unimaginable to all but a tiny fraction of humanity with the author's navel contemplating explication of her relationship with ... 		  
  







  
  
The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway Volume 1, 1920-1932 (History ...1 review
Alfred C. Mierzejewski

The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

"Most Valuable Asset" is valuable asset
A. C. Mierzejewski has provided an extremely useful insight into the workings of the Reichsbahn for a time period not well understood by many on both sides of the Atlantic. He does a good job of relating the internal railway business matters with the politics of the time, and shows an understanding of the broad variety of subjects that were interacting. As sometimes is the case with ... 		  
  







  
  
The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938 (New Studies in Economic and Social History)3 reviews
R. J. Overy

Cambridge University Press, 1996

Students, finally here is a book for you!
This is the model book, it is well written, very informative, basic, and easy to read. I find the description on the back cover of the book to be very accurate. From the back cover "The books, all written by a recognized authority in the subject, are intended for students approaching a topic for the first time, and for their teachers". As a matter of fact this book is one of a series of books ... 		  
  







  




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