Great Books and a Film on the Amazon
Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

During World War II, the governments of Brazil and the United States made an unprecedented level of joint investment in the economy and infrastructure of the Amazon region. The dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1937-45) trumpeted the colonization and development of the Amazon (christened the “March to the West”) as a nationalist imperative to defend a sparsely settled frontier covering some sixty percent of Brazilian territory.
George Orwell: A Life in Letters (2013)
Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (1991)

At the Battle of Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Wehrmacht looked hopeless.
Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation by Donald Raleigh (2013)

Recalling his formative years as an American baby boomer and the influence the Cold War and the Soviet Union had on his worldview, Donald Raleigh asks what life was like for people his age in the Soviet Union? What were their concerns about the future? How did they spend their time and what did Cold War ideological battles mean for their daily lives?
Handbook of African American Texas
The Hadamar Trial: Inadequacies of Postwar Justice
Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: How the USS Hornet CV-8 Paved the Way to Victory at Midway
When the United States entered World War II in 1942, the Japanese fleet, led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, dominated the Pacific.