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  • The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod

    The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History, A True Story

    by Theresa Mitchell Barbo, W. Russell Webster, John "Jack" Downey ...
    A first-hand account and fascinating new details of the 1952 rescue of the SS Pendleton, the true story behind the film The Finest Hours.On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor'easter snapped in half two 503-foot oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer. Human grace and grit, leadership and endurance prevail as Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Persecution and Participation

    Biography of a Bookkeeper at J. A. Topf & Söhne

    by Annegret Schüle, Tobias Sowade ...
    Translated by Penny Milbouer ...
    Series series Modern Jewish History
    This is the story of a crushingly ordinary man who had the misfortune to live in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. The son of a baptized Jewish father and a Protestant mother, Willy Wiemokli (1908–1983) was declared a half-Jew by the laws of the Third Reich, and because of this, he and his father were briefly interned in Buchenwald. Although his father was eventually executed in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Business of Genocide

    The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps

    by Michael Thad Allen ...
    During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation was run by a surprisingly small staff of bureaucrats — no more than 200 engineers and managers who worked in the Business Administration ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Fighting Coast Guard

    America's Maritime Guardians at War in the Twentieth Century, with foreword by Admiral Thad Allen, USCG (ret.)

    by Thad Allen ...
    This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States’ oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century. The Fighting Coast Guard features three distinct sections: “Beginnings,” which includes a short overview of the US Revenue Cutter ... Read more

    $23.99 USD