As a student of history I have had to read many books about the the rise of the Nazi party, and I must say that this one by far is the best! It is well researched and quite honestly a real page turner. I highly recomend it for anyone interested in Nazi politics.

Benjamin Lapp's magnum opus, "Revolution from the Right" is a fantastic source for scholars looking in the Weimar period of German History. Lapp's style is much like the style of William Sheridan Allen's "Nazi Seizure of Power". Lapp's book is simply a superb historical synthesis. Not many authors have choose to study single towns/provences during the Weimar Republic/Nazi revolution. One can only ponder of all footwork and sweat in writing such a concise historical book. One can study the social, political, economic, and emotional aspects of the Nazi revolution in Saxony. I would recomend this book to anyone who believes they know how common German people reacted to the Nazi movement. This book will add another aspect of the Nazi movement in Germany to anyone's repertoire.

In the annals of Hollywood, many superior directors whose works are well regarded by the critics and the public are often overlooked as individuals. The author remedies this situation regarding Siodmak with a detailed biography which has a highly useful analysis of the director's many fine--and quite varied in genre--motion picture productions.

This is a very worthwhile addition to anyone's library.

Although Alpi's book almost looks like a carbon copy of Herve Dumont's French study on Robert Siodmak (Switzerland, 1980)---even the structure is the same, the Alpi book however is superb because she does examine all of the films noirs of the great master of suspense as part of the chronology of Siodmak's life---and then adds a special section at the end of the book devoted only to the "noir" titles which contain many new insights not discussed in her earlier chapters. What intrigued this writer is her comparisons of Siodmak's American noirs to his earlier output in Germany and France. We agree, THELMA JORDON was Siodmak's last noir film and practically everything that came after proceeded downhill--but like Dumont, Alpi completes the director's output until his death. But unlike Dumont, Alpi could have included a filmography on Curt Siodmak, who exercised much influence over his brother's career and also better stills which illustrate the action of the noir films she describes. Although Alpi considers noir a "genre" but it is really a STYLE, and at times she is not aware how really well-known Siodmak was in Germany (in the early nineties, there was a complete retrospective of his films:FILMEXIL, EXILFILM---a cooperative venture of 4 film museums--in Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt and Hamburg in 1997) and also a German autobiography was published in Munich in 1980 entitled R.Siodmak, ZWISCHEN BERLIN UND HOLLYWOOD, I can only sing the praises of Alpi's work on Siodmak since it is practically the most complete, the most accessible to American scholars. But Alpi must realize there is also a linguistic community out there is multi-lingual--and so Siodmak's life and career is nothing new to us--but her careful scholarship in America is the best I have ever seen on this director. Although Alpi makes occasional errors---Preminger's FALLEN ANGEL was a vehicle for Alice Faye, NOT Gene Tierney---well, she did not live during the peak noir era herself. Nevertheless, Alpi's book is a terrifically readable work, full of interesting speculations (what would Hitchcock and Siodmak have talked about when they met, for example) and hopefully it will generate interest in film revivals and scholarship on other neglected noir directors like John Farrow, Edgar Ulmer, Alfred Werker and Anthony Mann. McFarland also brought out a new work on Jacques Tourner, another neglected noir director of the forties---so hats off to McFarland as well for giving us Alpi's perceptive and formidable work.

Dr.Ronald Schwartz, Prof. of Romance Languages and Film at City University of New York at Kingsborough. 10/30/98

Thank you for sharing your story, Mrs. Daluge. It's amazing to think that you could do so much to help the Jews and POW's right under the noses of their enemies. My 86-year-old father read it first, and he insisted the rest of the family HAD to read it. He was right.

This is a definite MUST read for adults and children alike. Agnes Daluge tells her story as a teenage spy with such spirit it is hard to put down. The happenings of World War II as seen through the eyes of a teenager can provide an excellent opportunity to review with your children and grandchildren. Not only does she give a factual account of her trials and tribulations but Agnes has a way of weaving humor within. Her down to earth writing makes you realize she was a child at heart first, and a spy and god-send for hundreds second. It's an amazing story that enables you to review history in a unique way. Thank you, Agnes, for opening up your life to your readers!

I've read dozens of WWII memoirs by American, British and German writers. This is the best! Lt Machorton, 19 years old, wounded and unable to walk, was left to die in the Burmese jungle, 300 miles behind Japanese lines. Despite his seemingly hopeles situation, he resolved to survive, and the story of how he did so is an epic. The horrors of close-quarters jungle combat against the Japanese are fully described, but ultimately, this is an uplifting and life-affirming story of courage and friendship.

Read this a long time back and its still fresh in my memory. To the Chindits in the jungles of Burma, all wounded were left behind in the need for the group to survive. Relentless pursued by the japanese, a young officer is wounded and faces the bitter rule. The ordeal now begins as he makes it back against all odds

I wish to stress with some urgency that in my view this recently issued monograph on Germany's greatest poet, Stefan George, who was likewise one of modern Europe's most enigmatic and disturbing political presences, constitutes an achievement of incomparable significance in the historiography of cultural modernism. Experto crede: I have been occupied in studying these individuals for thirty years or more, and I can assure students that Robert Edward Norton has shed more light than admirers of Stefan George would have thought possible upon a dazzlingly talented, albeit indubitably eccentric,literary cenacle at whose center stood the masterful and charismatic visionary who was its spiritus rector.

Although George began his literary career as something of a minor Teutonic satellite on the far fringes of the French Symbolist movement (we learn, for instance, that the poet became quite close, both personally and artistically, to several of the Symbolist School's leading lights, viz., Paul Verlaine and Stephane Mallarme to mention just two of the more prominent figures) the predominant emphasis in Robert E. Norton's monograph rests upon the author's entertaining presentation of a wide range of hitherto obscure details involving the poet's later career, when his personal pretensions began to outweigh his literary career--over which George assiduously endeavored to cast a shroud of mystery and ambiguity--as well as unlocking for us a treasure trove of hitherto obscure biographical facts and anecdotes about the disciples and associates who drifted into the orbit of George-Kreis at one time or another. These anecdotes cover the waterfront, from uproarious and barely believable brawls that erupt out of the blue between alpha-intellects who are not what one would describe as pugilists, to grotesque tales of oddballs and geniuses who prefer to gussy themselves up in amazing couture in order to be wearing chic and appropriate threads when sallying out to attend the legendary and elaborate masqued balls that were almost a matter of routine in Schwabing-Muenchen. That custom, we learn, dictates that these people are more often than not attired in Roman-styled togas or, when feeling somewhat more daring, decked out in some gaudy purple-dyed gown that has been designed to garb a middle-aged intellectual who is impersonating the Magna Mater!

We learn also that these bright young things also hold somewhat outre "language orgies" in the course of which one of the oddest of the odd, viz., Alfred Schuler, launches himself into a catatonic state and then proceeds to time-travel back to ancient Rome (to visit his idol, of course, the Roman Emperor Nero!).

On the darker side of these affairs, the narrative presents more ominous anticipations and adumbrations of ominous types of cultic behaviors and ritual observances many of which would one day come to exert a profound and troubling influence on a less purely literary gathering of activists, viz., Hitler's National Socialists, whose adherents were to inherit so many elements of George's uniquely--even oppresively--authoritarian leadership style, along with the [Schuler-inspired]adoption during the fin de siecle period of the swastika as a sort of occult sigil of mystical might, one that came to adorn the title page of the Circle's official literary journal, the Blaetter fuer die Kunst.

We're also given numerous details about the poet's itinerary as he wandered from one associate's flat to another's (he was definitely what one might call a "professional house-guest"), along with fresh discoveries about the incredible group of renowned thinkers and creative writers (among whom the most talented were surely philosopher Ludwig Klages, archaeologist Alfred Schuler, poet Hugo von Hoffmansthal, and Shakespearean scholar Friedrich Gundolf), all of whom became adherents to the famous "Circles" that were so idiosyncratic a feature of cultural life in Schwabing-Munich at the dawn of the 20th century.

In closing, I repeat that I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in German culture, in the nascent proto-National Socialist scene in early 20th century Bavaria, or simply in the spectacle of some of the weirdest intellectuals ever to have come down the pike.

Robert Norton's landmark biography on Stefan George and his circle truly is an exceptional book in every respect. Expansive in its inclusion of meticulous detail, this work stands as the definitive biography on George in any language to date.

An excellent book that shows us the sides of U-Boat commanders other than Prien, Schepke and Kretschmer. These guys were not as well known as Wolfgang Luth or Erich Topp, but they definitely made their marks during their service.

Silent Hunters is an appropriate title for the book in more ways than one. The U-Boats were silent hunters, and these commanders were more silent, not grabbing the headlines as much as those listed above.

The gripping account of U-615's struggle is amazing as Kapitsky struggles to save himself and his crew.

Relive Guggenheimer's victory in the Mediterranean as he sinks the British carrier Ark Royal just a few weeks after the carrier had helped to sink the Bismarck.

Relive the trial of Commander Eck, the only U-Boat captain to be executed for a war crime.

Informational reading that many people may not know about. I love researching U-Boats, and this book gave me more details. A nice addition to my growing archive!

Charles Santore's illustrations were beautiful. He portrayed the moods and feelings of the subjects very well indeed. We appreciated that he gave human faces to the subjects rather than the animated cartoons of Disney. I never could understand from the Disney pictures why the stepmother was so beautiful or how Snow White was deceived by such an evil looking hag. Santore's illustrations make the story believable on this score. Santore also "aged" Snow White in each consecutive picture of when she was "dead" for "many years" - thus making it credible that she was a young woman when she awoke. We also preferred the simplicity of the original story over the Disney version. We enjoyed this book and our 2.5 year old really likes it too.

The illustrations in this book are breathtaking. The story is familiar, but with little twists and turns away from the Disney version, but it's the amazing artistry of the illustrations that makes this a wonderful book to own.

Richard Grunberger was my history teacher when I lived in London. When I read his books it is as if he is still alive and with me in the classroom. To be honest, when I first read this book thirty years ago , I thought it was interesting but somewhat of a checklist. Upon rereading it much later I find it is a work of real scolarship. Its main quality is that is that the author manages to approach the subject with a sense of humour. Mr Grunberger must have spent years sifting through original documents and havinf lived in Europe at the the time and place of events was able to impart an I was there feeling.

He was particularly informed on the arts, mainly the cinema ,newspapers , music and literature.

To summarize, the author impresses with original scolarship and is a unique contribution to the period

One of the craziest social systems in the modern European history under Nazi dictatorship is perfectly disclosed. The inside structure of 12-year Reich is vividly described under 30 categories showing different segments of its bizarre society under totalitarianism. It gives a marvellous insight to the modern politics.

An intriguing book. Rather too detailed (but don't give up -- it's full of good stuff). A good reference for managers on how to run a business by maintaining excellent rapport with one's employees (Marcus Woolf style) and an excellent example of professional ethics (again, Marcus Woolf style towards his moles). Some amazing ideas by the East German intelligence, e.g.Romeo agents, are described.

Having travelled to East Berlin during the 50's and 60's, I thought this book would be of some interest. I was not prepared to be as thoroughly enthralled by this account of the East German secret police and its deputy minister, Markus Wolf, as I was. It was an unexpected find! Colitt obviously knows his subject and has created a spellbinding historical account.

loved the book.

a must read for those that care about the history of this region and the cultures and countries involved. finally someone wrote a more objective view of those tumultous times.

I loved reading this book. After many books of political and ideological influenced books, there is something that provides more objective understanding. If you care about those times, then this book is a must.