1939

  • 1939: The Last Season of Peace
    By Angela Lambert

    FDR nodded and Kennedy pulled up his pants and went out of the door, leaving the President chuckling. Not long afterwards he returned with the permission he had promised to obtain. 18 It is said that President Roosevelt appointed Joe ...

  • 1939: Countdown to War
    By Richard Overy, R. J. Overy

    In this dramatic account of the last days of peace in 1939, Richard Overy re-creates hour by hour the unfolding story in the capitals of Europe as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war that they feared might spell the end ...

  • 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
    By Thomas S. Hischak

    This book is a day-by-day chronicle of 1939 Hollywood's greatest year.

  • 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
    By Thomas S. Hischak

    Hollywood's Greatest Year Thomas S. Hischak. Published by Rowman & Littlefield A ... British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hischak, Thomas S. author.

  • 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II
    By Michael Jabara Carley

    358—3 59. 75. Litvinov (Geneva) to Narkomindel, Sept. 15, 193 8, DIMS, pp. 213—214. 76. Fierlinger to Czech foreign ministry, Sept. 19, 1 9 3 8, DIMS, p. 236. 77. Coulondre, nos. 694—696, Sept. 17, 193 8, DDF, 2°, XI, 278-279. 78.

  • 1939: Countdown to War
    By Richard Overy

    54 D. Dutton, Simon: A Political Biography of Sir John Simon (London, 1992), pp. 280-81; Halifax papers, A4.410.3/10 (iii), 'Record of Events before the War', p. 5. 55 Dutton, Simon, pp. 281-2; Halifax papers, A4.410.3/10 (iii), ...

  • 1939: A People's History
    By Frederick Taylor

    In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in...

  • 1939: The Making of Six Great Films from Hollywood's Greatest Year
    By Charles F. Adams

    Film critics and historians are virtually unanimous in considering 1939 the greatest year in the history of motion pictures. This one year produced many of the greatest films of all...

  • 1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War
    By Frederick Taylor

    46See Peter Hoff, 'Das Bild des Führers in Alle Deutsche Herzen', in Uricchio (ed.), Anfänge des Deutschen Fernsehens, pp. 210f. 47Article by Kurt Wagenführ, quoted in Monika Eisner, Thomas Müller, Peter M. Spangenberg, 'Der Lange Weg ...

  • 1939: The Last Season
    By Anne de Courcy

    A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.

  • 1939

    This title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to...

  • 1939: Countdown to War
    By Richard Overy

    'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The TimesRichard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage...