The Millionaires’ Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power

The Millionaires’ Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air PowerThe Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power by Marc Wortman
ISBN: 9781586484446
Published by PublicAffairs on May 8th 2007
Genres: Military, United States, Aviation
Pages: 313

Len's Summary: Like the author, many of these flyboys were graduates of Yale.

The Fourth Horseman: The Tragedy of Anton Dilger and the Birth of Biological Terrorism

The Fourth Horseman: The Tragedy of Anton Dilger and the Birth of Biological TerrorismThe Fourth Horseman: The Tragedy of Anton Dilger and the Birth of Biological Terrorism by Robert Koenig
ISBN: 1586483722
Published by PublicAffairs on January 9th 2007
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century, True Crime, Espionage
Pages: 376

Len's Summary: The convoluted story of attempts by an American agent of Germany to infect with anthrax and ganders mules and horses being shipped to the Allies in Europe from America during WWI. Also examines other German sabotage efforts, as well as attempts to precipitate a Mexican attack on the US.

When Money Dies: the Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

When Money Dies: the Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar GermanyWhen Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergusson
ISBN: 9781586489946
Published by PublicAffairs on 2010
Genres: Business & Economics, Economic History, Finance, General, Inflation, History, Europe, Germany
Pages: 269

Len's Summary: The post-WWI deadly hyperinflation that ruined the German middle class and brought the Weimar Republic near to collapse until rescued by the Dawes Plan of 1924.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson
ISBN: 9781610392563
Published by PublicAffairs on May 28th 2013
Genres: History, Modern, 20th Century, World, Social History
Pages: 544

Len's Summary: A popular survey history in the tradition of Tuchman’s 1962 The Proud Tower (Library of America, 2012). The author finds the world 1913 to be much like the world of today particularly in terms of economic and financial globalization. Described by one reviewer as “history without hindsight.”