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viii, 72 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 12 cm

"This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada." xii, 129 pages ; 21 cm

Michael Maren has spent much of the last twenty years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist. He witnessed at close range a harrowing series of wars, famines, and natural disasters. In The Road to Hell he tells how CARE unwittingly assisted a Somali dictator in building a political and economic powerbase. How the UN, Save the Children, and many other nongovernmental organizations ...

P. 1443-1620. ; 23 cm

"More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos edited by Jan Lánícek and Jan Lambertz explores the horrors of the Holocaust by focusing on the systematic starvation of Jewish civilians confined to Nazi ghettos and camps. The modest relief parcel, often weighing no more than a few pounds and containing food, medicine, and clothing, could extend the lives and health of prisoners. ...

Cover title. 16 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

1e druk. 32 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

A "re-creation of the social, political, and economic texture of those times." "Includes birth of civil rights movement, first massive infusion of federal aid in social welfare system, total restructuring of our educational system, liberation of women into the labor force and a basic redistribution of income." Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-496) and index. 512 pages ; 24 cm

11. durchgesehene und verb. Aufl. (191-210. tausend) ... 83 pages including illustrations, tables, diagrams 17 cm

Discusses the fate of Jews from Germany and Central Europe in French internment camps between 1940-42. In France, between 1939-45 an internment system was created that comprised in the southern area alone about 400 camps, where 500,000 persons were detained. Aside from Spanish political prisoners and French communists, most internees were German-speaking Jews; after August 1942, 10,000 of them were ...

Publisher description: Written in rivetings fashion by the coauthors of The Secret War Against the Jews, Unholy Trinity tells one of the darkest tales of World War II. After the war had ended, fearing a surge of Soviet growth, the Papacy entered into an espionage alliance with British and American intelligence agents. Subsuming justice to the nascent Cold War ideology, these three powers ferreted Nazi ...