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Moving to Opportunity provides a unique account of one of the largest housing experiments in history and its effects on lives of the children and families who participated. As the authors make clear, MTO is a uniquely American experiment, and this book brings home its lessons for advocates, scholars, students, journalists, and all who share a deep concern for opportunity and inequality in a changing nation.

Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law. From the whimpering of Kaltenbrunner and Ribbentrop on the stand to the icy coolness of Goering, each participant is vividly drawn. Includes twenty-four photographs of the key players as well as extensive references, sources, biographies, and an index.

This work examines terrorist activity worldwide from the mid-1990s to the 21st century. It covers the attack on the World Trade Center, the "War on Terrorism", and the escalating violence in Israel and Palestine, offering historical context by terrorism and counter-terrorism experts. It investigates key issues and events related to global and domestic terrorism, as well as future trends in terrorism and counter-terrorism. The work includes entries on terrorist individuals, organizations, and activities around the globe, and also features a complete volume of primary source documents relating to terrorism from ancient times to the 21st century.

Study of the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy, 1922 to 1940.

This text is the autobiography of John E. Doilbois, US Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1981. Doilbois was born in Luxembourg in 1918 and moved to the USA in 1931. Having graduated from Miami University, he served in American Military Intelligence where he interrogated Nazi war criminals.

Born 1980—Died 1940? Benjamin Bauman, a contemporary Jewish Orthopedic Surgeon, is blinded by a flash of light while driving his car. When the light subsides, he quickly discovers he is now driving another car in another time period. He panics and crashes the vehicle into a light pole. After self diagnosing his injuries and taking in his surroundings, Ben blacks out. When he awakens he finds himself in a Berlin hospital, and only a stone's throw away from Hitler's headquarters on the Wilhelmstrasse, in heart of Nazi Germany. It is Christmas Day, 1937. To the people around him Ben is Karl Schroder, a high-ranking Generalarzt and well respected Chief Surgeon in the hospital where he is now residing as a patient. Ben knows nothing of Karl’s past. Among a host of other surprises, however, he now speaks his native english and fluent german, a language alien to him a only a few hours before. Moreover, he learns the married Karl has been romantically linked to an empathetic nurse, Elsa Hirsh, who is tending to his wounds. As his trauma level soars, Ben rushes to find a mirror and discovers his journey has not physically altered his appearance. Odd news! Why do they think he is this Karl character? He then peers out a window and realizes he has been propelled into the worst place and time to be a Jew—Nazi Germany. Bad news! So far, his only piece of luck is nobody seems to realize who he really is. After a brief examination from a Nazi doctor and Hitler loyalist, Ben's “memory loss” and sudden knowledge of a new language is “scientifically” attributed to the blow in the head he received during the accident. From the German perspective Ben’s new language is American English, the language he retained during his trip into the past—a language Karl did not speak. This miraculous infusion of a language after a traffic accident soon intrigues members of Hitler's inner circle and brings the reluctant Ben face to face with the likes of Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler himself. Conversely, Ben meets and befriends the famed American broadcaster and author, William L. Shirer. With nurse Elsa in the mix, Ben is slated to become one busy time traveler. In summation, Ben’s obvious goal is to try return to the present, but as time goes by he feels he was propelled into the past for a yet to be determined mission. If so, what will his mission be? Was he sent to kill Hitler, warn England and America of a looming world war, alert the Jews of the impending holocaust? Or ... is it something more benign, like simply trying to stay alive before he is discovered for who he really is, Benjamin Bauman, a most reluctant Jewish Nazi.

An extensive history of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany’s air force. In his thoroughly researched study, John Killen examines German air power between 1914 and 1945, from the early days of flying when Immelmann, Boelke, Richtofen, and other First World War aces fought and died to give Germany air supremacy, to the nightmare existence of the Luftwaffe as the Third Reich plunged headlong to destruction. Here are the aircraft: the frail biplanes and triplanes of the Kaiser’s war; the great Lufthansa aircraft and airships of the turbulent Thirties; the monoplanes designed to help Hitler in his conquest of Europe. Here are the generals who forged the air weapon of the Luftwaffe: the swaggering Goering, the playboy Udet, the ebullient Kesselring, and the scapegoat Jeschonnek. Here, too, are the pilots who tried to keep faith with their Fatherland despite overwhelming odds: Adolf Galland, Werner Molders, Joachim Marseille, and Hanna Reitsch. Not least are the actions fought by the Luftwaffe from the Spanish Civil War to the Battle of Britain, through the bloody struggle for Crete, and the siege of Stalingrad to the fearful twilight over Berlin. “A good, readable account of the rise and fall of the Luftwaffe that covers all of the main fronts on which it fought, and examines the reasons for the eventual failure as well as providing a readable narrative.” —History of War

This work chronicles the lives and accomplishments of over 200 enemies who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces over the past three centuries. Books on American military heroes abound. But this book is the first to focus on America's talented enemies—the generals, admirals, Indian chiefs and warriors, submarine captains, fighter pilots, and spies who opposed the United States with military force or other means. Often these military leaders were among the best minds of their times. For more than two centuries, the new nation's most constant military opponents were the Native Americans, led by such capable chiefs as American Horse and Little Wolf. Under D'Iberville, Canada's French colonialists became formidable foes, but they were soon surpassed by the rigorously disciplined redcoats of Great Britain under Howe and Cornwallis. Ironically, the most effective enemies in the history of the United States were not the leaders of foreign military forces—like Mexico's Santa Anna, Japan's Yamamoto, or Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap. They arose from among its own citizens during the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.

July 1940: as Britain stood alone, the Army exhausted and defeated by the Wehrmacht and the Roval Navy, stretched worldwide, only the English Channel and the RAF remained between Britain and the expected German invasion. But the Luftwaffe's ill-prepared and last-minute assault on the RAF was met by a carefully planned system of fighter intervention, the defensive strategy devised by Hugh Dowding, Commander-in-Chief, RAF Fighter Command. Dowding fought and won Britain's most vital victory, the Battle of Britain. Yet he was dismissed in October 1940. Why?The full story of Dowding's struggle to victory is revealed in this masterly new study by Second World War historian John Ray. Dowding was under daily attack from rivals in the RAF and at the Air Ministry, who wanted a different approach to air defence, despite the severity of the threat and Dowding's success. John Ray tracks the course of the Battle and the internal arguments that threatened Dowding's position and RAF supremacy; this new perspective, matching the ebb and flow of bitter argument in the corridors of power with the drama of war in the air, makes for an engrossing study in RAF history and reveals the truth behind the Battle of Britain.