Sebastian Haffner was a non-Jewish German who emigrated to England in 1938. This memoir (written in 1939 but only published now for the first time) begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday is cut short by the outbreak of war, and ends with Hitler’s assumption of power in 1933. It is a portrait of himself and his own generation in Germany, those born between 1900 and 1910, and brilliantly ...

Manufacturer: Vivibar Publications
Written By: Violet Mills Carrick

George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merrick's narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and steamboat operations. George Byron Merrick ...

Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
Written By: George Byron Merrick

Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Written By: Robert R. Dykstra

This is a real-life story about the theft of a fabulous treasure - the German national gold and foreign currency reserves worth some #2,500,000,000 at the time of the original investigation - which disappeared in transit following the Nazi collapse in 1945. It is also the story of a mystery and a cover-up which threatened to involve the US Army in Germany, the Pentagon and the Department of the ...

Manufacturer: The Society
Written By: Mary Ramos Casey

These documentary photographs are the best from the University of Missouri Photography Workshop's 43 years--truly an historical record of the heartbeat of America--of family, of tradition, of change. Small town America's uniqueness and universality is revealed in 215 duotone prints.

Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing
Written By: Clifton C. Edom, Vilia C. Edom, Verna Mae Edom

Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
Written By: Ellsworth Collings

Throughout history symbols have been used in a variety of ways, often playing important roles. Each state has its own representative symbols - ranging from seals, flags, and buildings to rocks, minerals, plants, and animals - but how did they come to be chosen? In Catfish, Fiddles, Mules, and More, John C. Fisher provides an answer to that question for Missourians with a handy reference on the ...

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: John C. Fisher

Mark Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal, Missouri often brings to mind romanticised images of Twain's characters Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. This work tells another story of the Hannibal area - the exploitation and eventual destruction of Ilasco, Missouri.

Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
Written By: Gregg Andrews

Follow as events transpire across Missouri within those four long years. From raids and pursuit of the outlaws to the hunting down of Southern sympathizers and the Federal scouting parties across the state. Something for everyone in this book. This book is deemed by many readers as a Missouri classic. Illustrations by Rocky Medley.

Manufacturer: Two Trails Pub
Written By: Rocky Medley

Manufacturer: Univ of Missouri Pr
Written By: Loren Dudley Reid