Spring/Summer 2010 Book Sampler

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Title: Hitler’s Foreign Policy
Client: Enigma Book

A MASTERFUL STUDY OF HITLER’S FOREIGN POLICY AND THE TRUE ORIGINS
OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR by the world’s top specialist in history of Nazi
Germany and World War II.

“The years from the beginning of 1933 to the end of 1936 saw a diplomatic
revolution in Europe. From a barely accepted equal on the European stage, Germany
became the dominant power on the Continent. With the remilitarization of the Rhine
and, the stalemate in the Spanish civil war, the forming of the Axis, and the signing
of the Anti-Comintern Pact, this phase was completed. The diplomatic initiative in
the world belonged to Germany and its partners. Germany’s determination for war
became the central issue in world diplomacy.”

TM & © 2010 Enigma Books.
—Gerhard L. Weinberg

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Title: The Executor
Client: Vertigo

AS A STAR ENFORCER IN THE NHL, JOE ULLEN WAS THE BIGGEST THING
EVER TO COME OUT OF THE BACKWATER TOWN OF ELOHRA, NEW YORK.

But, when he is unexpectedly named the executor of his high school sweetheart’s
will, he decides to return to his hometown and see what’s changed. What he finds is
that his ex-girlfriend’s death may not have been an accident and that a dark secret
from his past has come back to haunt him in a big way.

Will Joe’s desire to uncover the truth of her death force him to reveal his own buried
secrets? Or will he simply become a brutal killer’s next victim...

TM & © 2010 DC Comics.
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Title: Hitler’s Intelligence Chief
Client: Enigma Books

A BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF SS GENERAL WALTER SCHELLENBERG
DURING THE FINAL MONTHS OF THE THIRD REICH AS HE ACCOMPANIED
HEINRICH HIMMLER WHILE ATTEMPTING TO SAVE HIS OWN LIFE. Schellenberg
was part of the Nazi leadership, although he never was directly involved in killing.
In 1945 he negotiated the freeing of 20,000 concentration camp inmates to Sweden
through Count Bernadotte. He was arrested in Denmark and wrote a first memoir
that is reproduced in its entirety in this book, with notes and comments by
Dr. Doerries. At Nuremberg he was a witness and then served a six-year sentence.
He died in Italy in 1952.

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Title: The Italian Brothers

AS A NAVAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER ALBERTO WAS IN ROME, PRIVY TO THE
MOST DANGEROUS SECRETS OF THE WAR AND AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE
RESISTANCE TO THE NAZIS. His brother Vittorio, wounded and captured at Tobruk
in Libya, ended up in a British POW camp in India where he remained until 1947
because he retained his allegiance to Mussolini and the fascist regime. The two
brothers didn’t know about each other’s fate for the duration of the war and made
opposite choices with tragic consequences.

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Title: Gotham Central: Vol3
Client: DC Comics

A BRUTAL GANG WAR WAGES IN GOTHAM CITY. AFTER A TRAGIC MISTAKE,
THE POLICE FEEL THAT THEY CAN NO LONGER TRUST BATMAN, so the
commissioner makes a fateful decision — the Dark Knight is now a wanted man,
and the famous Bat-Signal is removed from the roof of headquarters. But it couldn’t
have come at a worse time, as the Major Crimes Unit has to face a super-villain
they’ve never dealt with before, and a good cop’s life hangs in the balance.

As the events of the gang war take their toll on detectives Renee Montoya and
Crispus Allen, the two partners set events in motion that will change their lives
forever. To keep Gotham safe without Batman’s help, Allen and Montoya will have
to make some very powerful enemies…and face some hard truths about their
darkest secrets.

TM & © 2010 DC Comics.
The third volume of the multiple award-winning GOTHAM CENTRAL series is
collected in hardcover, brought to you by acclaimed writers Greg Rucka and
Ed Brubaker, and artists Michael Lark, Stefano Gaudiano, and Jason Alexander.

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Title: Becoming Winston Churchill

WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS ONLY 20 WHEN HE MET THE MAN WHOM HE
CREDITED, MORE THAN ANY OTHER, WITH SHAPING HIM AS A STATESMAN
AND AN ORATOR. As Churchill wrote: “I regard his as the biggest and most original
mind I have ever met. When I was a young man, he instantly gained my confidence
and I feel that I owe the best things in my life to him.”

That man was Bourke Cockran, a charismatic Irish-born Democratic Congressman
from New York City, acclaimed by his peers as the greatest orator in the Gilded
Age of politics. Following the death of Winston’s father, Lord Randolph, in 1895,
Cockran, who was a widower, became the lover of Churchill’s mother, the beautiful
American-born heiress Jennie Jerome, who persuaded Cockran to take her son

under his wing.

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Title: The DeValera Deception

“A brilliant idea! McMenamin is the expert on Bourke Cockran, the man who
mentored WSC as well as being his mother Jennie’s lover. Now he goes one stage
further and invents the son Cockran never had who becomes Winston’s friend and
ally. Counterfactual history is a serious branch of historical investigation and is
always stimulating and provocative. Here it is entertaining, fun, fast paced and laced
with just enough facts and real people to force any reader to imagine… what if?”

ANNE SEBBA
Author of American Jennie, the Remarkable
Life of Lady Randolph Churchill

“Reminds me of Alan Furst and Ken Follett (in the early days.)”

TIM NEWARK
Author of Mafia and Allies and the
forthcoming Lucky Luciano

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