Prelude to World War II

Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy by Guido Bonsaver

The End is Nigh: British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War by Robert Crowcroft 

Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance by Christian Goeschel

Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935–1943 by John Gooch

They Shall Not Pass: The Autobiography of La Pasionaria by Dolores Ibárruri

Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer

A History of Modern Europe by John Merriman 

My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini

The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

A History of Fascism by Stanley G. Payne

Mussolini: A Biography by Jasper Ridley

The Life of Benito Mussolini by Margherita Sarfatti

Hitler’s Interpreter by Paul Schmidt 

M: Son of the Century: A Novel by Antonio Scurati

World War II: The Definitive Visual History from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb by the Smithsonian

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans 

The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans 

Munich: Hofbräuhaus and History—Beer, Culture, and Politics by Jeffrey S. Gaab

Göring: A Biography by David John Cawdell Irving

Hitler in Vienna, 1907–1913: Clues to the Future by J. Sydney Jones

1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch by Mark Jones 

Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw 

Goebbels by Peter Longerich 

Hitler: Legend, Myth, and Reality by Werner Maser 

A History of Fascism 1914–1945 by Stanley G. Payne

Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir by Leni Riefenstahl

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

A Short History of the Weimar Republic by Colin Storer

Adolf Hitler by John Toland

Leni Riefenstahl: A Life by Jürgen Trimborn

Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939 by Volker Ullrich

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz

Five Years of My Life: 1894–1899 by Alfred Dreyfus

Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund by Arnie Bernstein

The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye by Jeremy Dauber

Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, Father of Hate Radio by Donald Warren

The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity by Eric L. Goldstein

Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction by Martin Gilbert

The Jews of the United States 1654–2000 by Hasia R. Diner

Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair by Maurice Samuels

The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich by Max Wallace

The Hitler Years: Triumph 1933–1939 by Frank McDonough

Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust by Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller

A History of Modern France by Jeremy D. Popkin

The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz

The American Jewish Experience by Jonathan Sarna

A History of the Roman People by Celia E. Schultz, Allen M. Ward, F. M. Heichelheim, and C. A. Yeo

Lenin: A Biography by Ronald W. Clark

The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest

Terrorists on Trial: A Performative Perspective by Beatrice de Graaf and Alex P. Schmid 

A History of Soviet Russia and Its Aftermath by M. K. Dziewanowski

V.I. Lenin Collected Works: September 1917–February 1918 edited by George Hanna 

Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg V. Khlevniuk

The Fate of the Romanovs by Greg King and Penny Wilson

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878–1928 by Stephen Kotkin

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929–1941 by Stephen Kotkin

Passage through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914–1918 by W. Bruce Lincoln

Russia and the USSR in the Twentieth Century by David MacKenzie and Michael W. Curran

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore 

The Secret History of Stalin’s Crimes by Alexander Orlov 

The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd by Alexander Rabinowitch

Murder In Mexico: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky by Leandro A. Sanchez Salazar

The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky by Victor Serge and Natalia Ivanovna Sedova

From Lenin to Stalin by Victor Serge

The Russian Revolution, 1917: Eyewitness Account by N. N. Sukanov

Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny

Lenin Lives!: The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia by Nina Tumarkin 

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary by Dmitri Volkogonov

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