Young, Lauren
Summary: "Hitler's Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism almost took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on recently declassified intelligence files, Lauren Young details how sympathy for the Nazi cause pervaded the British aristocracy, with significant factions of the upper class actively and methodically pursuing a pro-German...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.083 YOUSummary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPELutes, Jason
Summary: "The third and final act of Jason Lutes's historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament, the citizenry becomes even more divided. Lutes steps back from the larger political upheaval, using the intertwining lives of a small group of Germans to zero in on the rise of fascism and how swiftly it can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUTSummary: A rising young follower of Mussolini must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CONSummary: It tells the story of Vivien Epstein, a young Jewish woman who after falling in love with a member of the '62 Group', rejects her comfortable middle-class life in Manchester and joins the fight against fascism in London. Inspired by true events, it follows Vivien as she goes undercover into the NSM, a neo-Nazi movement that is becoming increasingly prominent in London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIDRiemen, Rob
Summary: An international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about the rise of fascism and the ways in which we can combat it. In “The Eternal Return of Fascism,” Rob Riemen explores the theoretical weakness of fascism, which depends on a politics of resentment, the incitement of anger and fear, xenophobia, the need for scapegoats, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 RIESummary: He was the world’s first Fascist dictator, a man with grandiose visions of restoring the Roman Empire. His exaltation of violence inspired Hitler. And yet, in the 1920s, world leaders were full of praise for Benito Mussolini and his anti-Communist stance. This program examines the rise of Italian Fascism - from its roots in Italy’s humiliating loss in the WWI battle of Caporetto to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Piesing, Mark
Summary: "The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PIEMarrs, Jim.
Contents: The escape of Adolf Hitler -- A definition of terms -- Communism vs. National Socialism -- 1. THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH. A New Reich begins -- The strange case of Rudolf Hess -- Nazi wonder weapons -- A treasure trove -- The writing on the wall -- II. THE REICH CONSOLIDATES. The Ratlines -- Project paperclip and the space race -- Nazi mind control -- Business as usual -- Kennedy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008