Description of the events leading up to Adolf Hitler's control of Germany, the establishment of the Nazi party, the war, and eventual defeat of Germany and her leaders.

Newton's book has a warm welcome from the readers of the Green Mountain state, and , we are thankful to say when you say "Vermont readers," you mean just about everybody here above kindergarten age.

Presents an overview of the natural and cultural history of Vermont, describing the development of its biophysical regions and explaining how human interaction with the environment has shaped the landscape.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold over four million copies in multiple editions and has been translated into seventeen languages. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions,...

During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." Historian Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev's Russian ballet and...

Fourteen publications that span a period of just over two centuries and variously relate to America's fourteenth state.

Provides a history of contemporary Europe, covering thirty-four countries over a span of sixty years, and includes discussion of the region's economic development, culture, and politics.