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AMM Drawing: Hitler and man (possibly Goebbels)
Hand drawing of Hitler and what I am assuming is some sort of advisor. AMM mentioned in our meeting that the picture is Hitler, but I don't think he mentioned who the second man is. Included is an image that is somewhat similar to the drawing but not an exact match. The man, if the photo provided is a match, would be Joseph Goebbels, a Nazi politician, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and former Chancellor of the German Reich (from Wikipedia) -
Berlin-Mitte Alley
Description from Alamy: "This street in Berlin-Mitte is an old alley between Fischerstraße and Fischerbrücke on Fischerinsel, taken in 1931 (alley no longer exists). In the background you can see the tower of the Altes Stadthaus (then Neues Stadthaus). " -
Concentration and Death Camp Chart
A chart of concentration and death camps, and their function, locastion, date established, date evacuated, date liberated, and estimated number of people murdered (column and all numbers are cut off). -
"Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp..." Publication information
The publication information for "Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp where Modern Space Technology was Born and 30,000 Prisoners Died" from ALMARK & CO. -
"Secret Agenda" Page Clippings
Pages 25, 26 and 27 (seemingly in full) and 3 un-numbered clippings of various pages of "Secret Agenda", from what seems to be a chapter called "Rules of the Game". One clipping has "68" written next to it, most-likely the page number, with a rewritten quote from the page written underneath it. I was unable to find the author of the book. I got results for "Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deepthroat, and the CIA" by Jim Hougan, but I am not sure if that is a match with this. -
The New York Review "The Secret Intelligence Wars"
Article from the Sept. 26 2002 issue of The New York Review, titled "The Secret Intelligence Wars" by Thomas Powers. Digital copy of the issue's cover is included. -
The Concentration Camp Memorial of Mittelbau-Dora, Nordhausen
Two printed pages of "The Concentration Camp Memorial of Mittelbau-Dora, Nordhausen", with the following sections highlighted: "is 20 kilometers long and 30 meters high."; "catacombs"; "the two main galleries with a length of around 100 meters". The original website printed at the bottom of page 1 is no longer accessible -
Memoir of Resistance-Pages 57-67
10 printed out pages of "163256: A Memoir of Resistance" by Michael Englishman. The top of page 62 has "Mike Englishman" hand written on the top. Description from Amazon: "163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers in 1945 and his emigration to Canada. Surviving by his wits, Englishman escaped death time and again, committing daring acts of bravery to do what he thought was right—helping other prisoners escape and actively participating in the underground resistance. A man who refused to surrender his spirit despite the loss of his wife and his entire family to the Nazis, Englishman kept a promise he had made to a friend, and sought his friend’s children after the war. With the children’s mother, he made a new life in Canada, where he continued his resistance, tracking neo-Nazi cells and infiltrating their headquarters to destroy their files. Until his death in August 2007, Englishman remained active, speaking out against racism and hatred in seminars for young people. His gripping story should be widely read and will be of interest to scholars of auto/biography, World War II history, and the Holocaust." -
Drawing of a rocket launch
Drawing by AMM. Seems to be a rocket taking off. It looks like earth is in the top right corner, so maybe this is launching off the the moon? -
Possible TWTCF Book Cover Draft
A sketch by AMM of a hill with a tree on it, with a crow (presumably) flying overhead, its arc drawn with a line. I am slightly unsure of what is being depicted on the far right of the page next to the tree. The title of the book is in the top left. I am speculating that is it a cover design draft. -
I Volunteered: Canadian Vietnam Vets Remember
The cover of "I Volunteered: Canadian Vietnam Vets Remember" by Tracey Arial. The bottom right features the logo of the Vietnam Veterans in Canada. The left side of the cover features three photographs (from top to bottom): 1. two helicopters landing on a beach next to two soldiers, 2. two rows of soldiers at attention lined up in front of what appears to be a mess hall, and 3. three soldiers covering their ears from the sound of a mortar firing. The synopsis reads as follows: "Everyone knows that Canada sheltered over 30,000 Americans escaping the draft, but not many are aware that for every draft dodger, a Canadian illegally volunteered to fight for the U.S. armed forces in Vietnam. Canadians turned a blind eye to them. Both the Canadian government and the average Canadian chose not to admit that we had any part in America's dirty war. The Canadian volunteers were the invisible army. Those who returned were shunned or forgotten. I Volunteered is their story." -
Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles' Invasion of Canada
The cover of "Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles' Invasion of Canada" by Brian Kendall. The cover features a photograph of the Beatles from when they performed at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on September 7, 1964. It also features three photographs along the bottom (from left to right): 1. police officers trying to restrain a crowd of ecstatic female fans, 2. a group of fans, one in particular holding a flag with the faces of the four Beatles surrounding a maple leaf, and 3. a crowd of fans gathered outside a theatre that displays "Monday The Beatles", with a fan holding a homemade "YEAH RINGO!" sign. The book is said to detail the Beatles' first trip to Canada in the 1960s. A review from Jack Broumpton, assistant professor of music at Laurentian University, helps give a more detailed synopsis: "This book provides a rare and refreshing look at how the four boys from Liverpool inspired pandemonium at their Canadian concerts in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. It also introduces the reader to a number of colorful figures from the Canadian radio and television history while allowing a glimpse into the workings of a very young Canadian music industry. The story of the Canadian visit is told in six short chapters that feature reproduced newspaper articles and Beatles memorabilia with a definite Canadian flavor. The visit is placed in a historical perspective context with other notable events of the day." -
The Black Donnellys: the True Story of Canada's Most Barbaric Feud
Description from Thriftbooks: "A new edition of a classic novel from one of Canada's most sensational crime authors. Near London, Ontario, in the Lucan district, even the bravest were scared to ride at night. The notorious Donnelly family - brawlers, murderers, robbers, arsonists - were despised and feared, and their reign of bloodshed and terror gripped the community... until the townspeople planned their revenge. The Black Donnellys is the tale of the most vicious feud in southwestern Ontario history. Blending parts of a true story with generous spoonfuls of fiction, crime author Thomas P. Kelley's sensational interpretation of this tragedy raised the Donnellys from local folklore to a shocking piece of Canadiana. Originally published in 1954, this classic has stood the test of time - pulling in generation after generation of readers with its thrilling details about the tumultuous lives and tragic deaths of five members of the Donnelly family on one night in February 1880. This new edition of The Black Donnellys - which is introduced by Ray Fazakas, the foremost expert in Donnelly family history - is sure to captivate yet another generation of historical fiction lovers and crime novel aficionados. This description may be from another edition of this product. " -
The Donnelly Album: The Complete & Authentic Account of Canada's Famous Feuding Family
Description from Amazon: "The Donnelly Album By now everyone in Canada knows at least one version of the brutal slaying of members of the Donnelly family on the night of February 3, 1880. The Donnelly Album tells in compelling detail the story of the Donnellys-James and Johannah and their seven sons and one daughter. Arriving in Canada from Tipperary, Ireland, in the 1840s, the family settled in the boisterous Irish pioneer community in Biddulph Township near London, Ontario. For the next thirty years, their activities gained wide notoriety in the surrounding district. The father was once convicted of murder but escaped the gallows. The sons grew up to be handsome, reckless, enterprising in business, and dangerous in combat. Largely because of their presence, Lucan, the village nearest their farm home, became known as the widest town in Canada. What is it about the Donnellys that have fascinated so many people for many years? Were they really as wicked as their enemies have portrayed them? Why was no one ever convicted of the murders? What happened to the surviving Donnellys? Why do local people today still fell so strongly, both pro and con, about the family? After fifteen years of exhaustive research, Ray Fazakas has produced the definitive account of the famous feud and its tragic consequences. He has also collected an astonishing treasure trove of old photographs, contemporary drawings, maps, and documents of the Donnellys, their murderers, and the sites and people involved in the events. This unique combination of narrative and illustration recreates not just an epic tragedy but an entire segment of Canadian frontier life. Ray Fazakas is a well-known Hamilton lawyer." -
Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation
Description from Thriftbooks: "It is rare in history for people to link their identity with their generation, and even rarer when children and adolescents actually shape society and influence politics. Both phenomena aptly describe the generation born in the decade following the Second World War. These were the baby boomers, viewed by some as the spoiled, selfish generation that had it all, and by others as a shock wave that made love and peace into tangible ideals. In this book, Doug Owram brings us the untold story of this famous generation as it played out its first twenty-five years in Canadian society. Beginning with Dr Spock's dictate that this particular crop of babies must be treated gently, Owram explores the myth and history surrounding this group, from its beginning at war's end to the close of the 1960s. The baby boomers wielded extraordinary power right from birth, Owram points out, and laid their claim on history while still in diapers. He sees the generation's power and sense of self stemming from three factors: its size, its affluent circumstance, and its connection with the 1960s - the fabulous decade of free love, flower power, women's liberation, drugs, protest marches, and rock 'n' roll. From Davy Crockett hats and Barbie dolls to the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution, the concerns of this single generation became predominant themes for all of society. Thus, Owram's history of the baby-boomers is in many ways a history of the era. Doug Owram has written extensively on cultural icons, Utopian hopes, and the gap between realities and images - all powerful themes in the story of this idealistic generation. A well-researched, lucid, and humorous book, Born at the Right Time is the first Canadian history of the baby-boomers and the society they helped to shape." -
Fatal Tilt: Speaking Out About Sovereignty
Unable to find a description of the text, which is only 16 pages in length. VPLbibliocommons has this within the "Subject and genre" section of their listing: "Canada. Great Britain. Constitutional amendments — Canada Federal-provincial relations — Canada Canada — Politics and government — 1980-1984 Canada — Politics and government — 1984-1993" -
The New Meaning of Treason
"Rebecca West tackles not only the history and facts behind the spate of World War II traitors, but the overriding social forces at work to challenge man’s connection to his fatherland. As West reveals in this expanded edition, the ideologically driven amateurs of World War II were followed by the much more sinister professional spies for whom the Cold War era proved a lucrative playground and put Western safety at risk. Filled with real-world intrigue and character studies, West’s narrative connects the war’s treasonous acts with the rise of Communist spy rings in England and tackles the ongoing issue of identity in a complex world." - Amazon -
Snow Job: Canada, the United States and Vietnam (1954-1973)
The cover of "Snow Job: Canada, the United States and Vietnam (1954-1973)" by Charles Taylor. The cover is mostly a dark blue, with the words "SNOW JOB:" in red. Superimposed on the words "SNOW JOB:" is an image of five Canadian men serving on the "International Commission of Control and Supervision" in Vietnam, identified by their berets and short-sleeved, white button-down uniform. The synopsis of the book reads as follows, "Canada's twenty-year involvement with the U.S. in the Vietnam War is carefully and brilliantly analyzed in this controversial book." -
The CIA's Greatest Hits
The cover of "The CIA's Greatest Hits" by Mark Zepezauer, part of "The Real Story Series". The cover features a cartoon of a man in a trench coat, sunglasses, and fedora, carrying a briefcase and smoking a cigarette, while holding the Statue of Liberty at gunpoint. The Statue of Liberty is depicted as human-sized, and she has dropped her torch in fear. The colors featured most prominently on this cover are mustard yellow along the top, magenta on the bottom half, and black along the left side. The synopsis of the book reads as follows, "In crisply written, two-page chapters, each accompanied by a cartoon, this book tells you how the CIA hired top Nazi war criminals, shielded them from justice and learned (and used) their techniques was involved in the massacre at Jonestown, the bombing of Pan AM flight 103, Watergate, Iran/Contra, the Bay of Pigs, rigged elections in Italy and drug trafficking in Afghanistan and across the globe participated in the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, many foreign politicians and literally million of ordinary people in Indonesia, East Timor, Central America, Vietnam and many other places orchestrates the media - one CIA officer like to call it "the mighty Wurlitzer" - and places its agents inside newspapers, magazines and book publishers and much, much more" -
Spy Wars: Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost
The cover of "Spy Wars: Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost" by J. L. Granatstein and David Stafford. The cover is mostly blue, and prominently features an image of the Canadian flag with the maple leaf replaced by a circular photograph of a closeup of a man holding a camera up to his eye. A review at the top of the cover by "The Globe and Mail" reads, "A path-breaking popular history... deftly written." The price of the book on its spine reads "$7.50". The synopsis of the book reads as follows, "Fact as fascinating as fiction, this book delivers a briskly paced survey of Canada's secret history. To most Canadians, the world of espionage may seem a far off sort of affair, a great game played in often exotic locales by stealthy figures. But, as this pathbreaking book makes clear, Canada has been the site of considerable international intrigue, from Cold War skullduggery to high-tech terrorism. The authors argue that while the Cold War may be over, the spy wars will continue, & Canada will remain enmeshed in a world of saboteurs & counter-terrorists, spies & spycatchers." -
Target Nation: Canada and the Western Intelligence Network
The cover of a book titled, "Target Nation: Canada and the Western Intelligence Network", by James Littleton. The cover is mostly black, but prominently features an image of a red maple leaf, akin to the design on the Canadian flag, being pierced in the middle by a throwing dart that features the stars and stripes of the United States flag on its flight (the back end of the dart). -
Berlin bei Nacht
A postcard that reads, "BERLIN bei NACHT" on the front, which translates to "Berlin by night" in English. There is a moon with a face smiling from behind the "B" in "BERLIN", surrounded by stars. Within the words "BERLIN" and "NACHT", there are photographs of various young women. The bottom of the postcard makes it appear as if the "BERLIN bei NACHT" illustration were a poster that was furling up at the bottom, revealing behind it ten sets of legs and shoes walking around in the rain. The back of the postcard reads vertically, "ANONYME FOTOGRAFIE NR. A19 [Copyright Symbol] SAMMLUNG EIKEMEYER/BERLIN", which translates to, "Anonymous photograph NR. A19 [Copyright Symbol] Eikemeyer collection/Berlin". -
Fence-top Royal Air Force Memorial
A photograph taken outside of three items erected on the top of a chain link fence, creating what appears to be a memorial of sorts. From left to right, they are the flag of the United States, a blue mannequin head with a World War II Royal Air Force (RAF) peaked cap on top, and the flag of the RAF. Below these three items and mounted to the chain link fence is a wooden coat rack with pegs running horizontally. The letters "M L E" are printed in red at the top of the coat rack. Behind the flags and hat, there appears to be a bench and what is either a birdhouse or mailbox next to it. -
Unwilling Germans: The Goldhagen Debate
Description from Amazon: "Few if any works of the past fifty years have moved a broad section of the German public to think about their country's Nazi past as has Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners. The main argument of his book is that Germans committed the unthinkable acts of the Holocaust not because they were forced to but out of a deeply held conviction that killing Jews was morally just. Unwilling Germans? traces the intense and varied reception of a book that has created more heated debate than any other treatment of Germany's genocidal past. Unwilling Germans? reprints articles that originally appeared in German newspapers, the popular press, and journals, as well as offering original essays. The book traces the initial reactions in Germany to the debate surrounding the U.S. publication of the book, the subsequent reviews and reactions upon the publication of the German translation, and includes contributions by both Goldhagen himself and American historian Christopher Browning. A unique and fascinating collection, Unwilling Germans? will help to sort out the confusing nature of the response to the "Goldhagen Debate"." -
VIETNAM: A History/The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War
A Companion to the PBS Television Series. Goodreads description: "This monumental narrative clarifies, analyzes, and demystifies the tragic ordeal of the Vietnam war. Free of ideological bias, profound in its undertsanding, and compassionate in its human portrayals, it is filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with participants-French, American, Vietnamese, Chinese: diplomats, military commanders, high government officials, journalists, nurses, workers, and soldiers. Originally published a companion to the Emmy-winning PBS series, Karnow’s defining book is a precursor to Ken Burns’s ten-part forthcoming documentary series, The Vietnam War. Vietnam: A History puts events and decisions into such sharp focus that we come to understand – and make peace with – a convulsive epoch of our recent history."