Looks at Hitler's first year in power through the stories of the American ambassador, Hitler's chief of the foreign press, a Jewish society reporter, and the first head of the Gestapo
It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise...
Close Up was the first English-language journal of film theory. Published between 1927 and 1933, it billed itself as "the only magazine devoted to film as an art," promising readers "theory and...
“The leading and most persuasive explanation of the worst economic disaster in American history, the onset of the Great Depression.”—Ben S. Bernanke, Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chair of...