communism

In 1962, people around the world, but especially in the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union, seemed to be holding their breath as they wondered if a nuclear war was about to erupt. US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later recalled that he thought October 27, 1962, "was the last Saturday I would ever see.".

In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.

This book looks at the roots of World War 2 and presents a chronological examination of what happened at its beginning. It offers readers an accessible summary of the history ad its players -and tells the history from the perspective of soldiers, generals, nurses, politicians and civilians and as well as presenting the culture through artworks, primary sources and the memoirs of its players.

"In 1997 the author, aged 17, escaped North Korea for China. Her mother's first words over the telephone to her lost daughter were "don't come back". The reprisals for all of them would have been lethal"--Provided by publisher.

It's 1951, and 12-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas, but when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery.

Explores the Russian Revolution, Communism, and the economic, political, and military events surrounding the revolution.

The Tet Offensive of 1968 was the turning point of the Vietnam War. It convinced many Americans that the war could not be won. In this book, readers will learn about the different factions of the war: the North Vietnamese Army, the Viet Cong, the South Vietnamese, and the American military forces.

A one-man show based on the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an East Berlin transvestite who survived World War II and received the Order of Merit from the German government after the fall of the Berlin Wall.