Liulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 LIUCollingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)
Summary: A history of the role of food in World War II reveals how more than twenty million people died from starvation, malnutrition and related diseases during the war and traces the interaction between food and strategy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 COLLiulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 UTOCall number: DVD 909 UTO PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 UTO PART 2
Schmidt, Shannon McKenna
Summary: "On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT SCHSummary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019