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When World War II ended in 1945, most of Europe lay in ruins. German cities like Dresden and Hamburg had practically been cremated from day-and-night Allied fire-bombings. Warsaw had been ...
Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?
by Viktor Suvorov (London: Harnish Hamilton, 1990); 364 pages; $22.95.
In the early hours of September 1, 1939, the military might of Nazi Germany was set loose on Poland. As Panzer divisions crossed the ...
One of the most effective Marxian methods of argument has been to claim that what appears as reality is in fact illusion. For over a hundred years, Marxists have insisted that such bourgeois ...
Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939
by Harriet Sergeant (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990); 371 pages; $25.
Following the Sino-British War of 1842, several ports along the China coast were opened to Western ...
The 20th century opened with great hopes for the future. For almost a hundred years, a major war had not disturbed the peace of Europe. And when military conflicts had broken out among the European nations, they had been ...
Economic Freedom and Interventionism: An Anthology of Articles and Essays by Ludwig von Mises
(Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1990); 250 pages; $29.95-cloth; $14.95-paper.
Ludwig von Mises is quite possibly the greatest economist of the 20th century. He ...
February 1991 saw the release of the latest annual Economic Report of The President. Prepared by the President's Council of Economic Advisors, the report is meant to provide a detailed summary of where the American economy has been during ...
Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929
by Alan M. Ball (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990); 226 pages; $11.95.
In 1921, Russia was in a state of economic and social collapse. The country had undergone three years of the First world ...
In the days immediately following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the Bush Administration declared that a vital interest of the United States was at stake. American economic wellfbeing was threatened by Iraqi control of the Kuwaiti ...
The Hidden Nations: The People Challenge the Soviet Union
by Nadia Diuk and Adrian Karatnycky (New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc. 1990); 284 pages; $22.95.
Many of the "captive nations" of central and eastern ...
