1918-1945

"A pathbreaking account of the continuing ethnic and state violence after the end of WWI--conflicts that more than anything else set the stage for WWII"--Provided by publisher.

As World War II rages, Christine and her family try to escape from war-torn Budapest.

Explores the causes of the stock market crash in 1929 and the resulting Great Depression felt not only in North America, but worldwide. Source material, including posters, political cartoons, books, interviews, and articles show the devastation of the resulting mass unemployment, epidemic real estate foreclosures, and crushing poverty of those years.

An account of the stock market crash of 1929.

A reappraisal of the wartime relationship that considers the cultural perspectives between Japan and America.

During the harshest year (1933) of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's right-hand-man, Harry Hopkins, hired newspaperwoman Lorena Hickok to embark with her close friend, FDR's wife, Eleanor, on a journey to the hardest-hit areas of the country to report back to the president the degree of devastation Americans were coping with. Hickok's contribution to the policies of the New Deal were pivotal and her ill-fated relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt began to unravel after the trip.

It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.

Explores the convergence of cultural, historical, and economic factors that made the 1920s one of history's most pivotal eras, inviting readers to contemplate the influences ranging from jazz music and Prohibition to racial intolerance and the stock market crash.

A graphic novel adaptation of Amity Shlaes' history of the Great Depression which focuses on the economic realities and the largely forgotten individuals and events that influenced the period, asserting that the government made the Depression "great" by overlooking the men and women who were trying to help themselves.

A novel based on a true story that follows a family as they navigate through the perils of Poland during the start of World War II.