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  • The Pope Against Nuremberg

    How the Vatican Helped Nazis Escape Postwar Justice

    by Gerald J. Steinacher ...
    How Vatican officials aided Nazi war criminals and undermined Allied justice after World War IIIn the aftermath of World War II, the Nuremberg Trials promised a new era of international justice, holding Nazi leaders to account for their crimes. Yet beyond the courtroom, a very different struggle was unfolding, one that played out behind the walls of the Vatican.Provocative and meticulously ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • Humanitarians at War

    The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust

    by Gerald Steinacher ...
    From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battles with communist critics on the eve of the Cold War, this is the intriguing and remarkable story of the International Red Cross - and how it survived its ambiguous relationship with the Nazis during the Second World War. The Geneva-based International ... Read more

    $13.39 CAD

  • Fascist Legacies

    Far-Right Ideologies Then and Now

    Edited by Ari Kohen, Gerald J. Steinacher ...
    Series series Contemporary Holocaust Studies
    The world has changed since the 1930s, but human nature has not. What can we learn when comparing far-right populism in the United States to far-right populism elsewhere? How can we better understand the underlying ideas and ideologies that seem to transcend time and place? How can we best address them? How can we communicate what we have learned about these issues to those outside of academia? ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Antisemitism on the Rise

    The 1930s and Today

    Edited by Ari Kohen, Gerald J. Steinacher ...
    Series series Contemporary Holocaust Studies
    We live in uncertain and unsettling times. Tragically, today’s global culture is rife with violent bigotry, nationalism, and antisemitism. The rhetoric is not new; it is grounded in attitudes and values from the 1930s and the 1940s in Europe and the United States.Antisemitism on the Rise is a collection of essays by some of the world’s leading experts, including Joseph Bendersky, Jean Cahan, R. ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Unlikely Heroes

    The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching

    Edited by Ari Kohen, Gerald J. Steinacher ...
    Series series Contemporary Holocaust Studies
    Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less than 1 percent of the population in Nazi-occupied Europe. As inspiring figures and role models, rescuers challenge us to consider ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Hannah Arendt

    Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial

    by Peter Burdon ...
    Series series Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers
    Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy. After reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Arendt embarked on a series of reflections about how to make judgments and exercise responsibility without recourse to existing law, especially when existing law is judged as immoral. This book uses Hannah Arendt’s text Eichmann in Jerusalem to ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Church of Spies

    The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler

    by Mark Riebling ...
    The heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII—often labeled “Hitler’s Pope”—was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Reich during World War II.**“A groundbreaking new history of the Vatican-German Resistance. . . . Writing with the craft of a novelist and the conscience of a meticulous scholar, Riebling has produced a masterly account.” —**National ReviewThe Vatican’s ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • My Battle Against Hitler

    Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich

    by Dietrich von Hildebrand, John Henry Crosby ...
    How does a person become Hitler’s number one enemy? Not through espionage or violence, it turns out, but by striking fearlessly at the intellectual and spiritual roots of National Socialism.Dietrich von Hildebrand was a German Catholic thinker and teacher who devoted the full force of his intellect to breaking the deadly spell of Nazism that ensnared so many of his beloved countrymen.His story ... Read more

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  • The Pope and Mussolini

    The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

    by David I. Kertzer ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEFrom National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolini’s spies inside the highest ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • How Fascism Works

    The Politics of Us and Them

    by Jason Stanley ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writerA Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Why the Jews?

    The Reason for Antisemitism

    by Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin ...
    Series series An Examination of Antisemitism
    From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, a compelling discussion of the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century.The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no other religious, national, or political name. Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why did Hitler consider murdering Jews ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Pope at War

    The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

    by David I. Kertzer ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church and its conduct during World War II.”—Daniel Silva“Kertzer brings all of his usual detective and narrative skills to [The Pope at War] . . . the most comprehensive account of the Vatican’s relations to the Nazi and fascist regimes before and during the war.”—The Washington Post**“Tolstoyan.”—Cynthia ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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