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"The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact,...

"By early April 1914, Colorado Governor Elias Ammons thought the violence in his state's strike-bound southern coal district had eased enough that he could begin withdrawing the Colorado National Guard, deployed six months earlier as military occupiers. But Ammons misread the signals, and on April 20, 1914, a full-scale battle erupted between the remaining militiamen and armed strikers living in a tent colony at the small railroad town of Ludlow....

Tells the story of Hitler's life and his social and political philosophy. Hitler also states very clearly how he intends to overthrow the German government, as well as outlines his program for the German, and the world's people.

Features the story of pilots who have earned their living by flying in other people's wars.

A biography of Adolf Hitler, based in part on more than one hundred and fifty interviews with people directly involved with his life.

"A summing up of the best of Terkel."--Herbert Mitgang, "Doubletake" "The Studs Terkel Reader," originally published under the title "My American Century," collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his magnificent introductions to each work. Featuring selections from "American Dreams, Coming of Age, Division Street, "The Good War," The Great Divide, Hard Times, Race," and "Working," this "greatest hits"...

"In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself. Fordlandia, as the settlement was called, soon became the site of an epic clash. On one side was the lean, austere car magnate; on the other, the Amazon, the most complex ecological system on the planet. Indigenous...

When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, 13 million American workers were jobless. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts, and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created--the Works Progress Administration, which would forever change the physical landscape and the social policies of the United States....

Examines the identity of "the new woman" of the 1920s chronicling their struggles and experiences in contrast to popular images set forth in the mass media and in literature of the day.

Describes the conditions and experiences of the nearly 15 million people who spent part of World Wat II in a prison camp.