Reading List for Dictators and Demagogues

Background Texts

Bernier, Oliver. Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Large, David Clay. Between Two Fires: Europe's Path in the 1930s. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.

Seaton-Watson, R. W. Britain and the Dictators: A Survey of Post-War British Policy. New York: Macmillan, 1938.

Weber, Eugen. The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

China and Japan

Barenblatt, Daniel. A Plague Upon Humanity. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Bix, Herbert. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

Bradby, Tom. The Master of Rain. Garden City: Doubleday, 2002.

Bull, Bartle. Shanghai Station. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2004.

Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Crozier, Brian. The Man Who Lost China. New York: Scribner's, 1976.

Dong, Stella. Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City. New York: Morrow, 2000.

Dorn, Frank. The Sino-Japanese War: From the Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

Eastman, Lloyd E. Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past: The Memoir of his Second Wife, Ch'en Chieh-Ju. Boulder: Westview, 1993.

Hamilton, John Maxwell. Edgar Snow: A Biography. Bloomington: Indiana, 1988.

Hooton, E. R. The Greatest Tumult: The Chinese Civil War 1936-1949. Washington: Brassey's, 1991.

Iriye, Akira. The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. New York: Longman, 1987.

___. Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War 1941-1945. Cambridge: Harvard, 1981.

Ishiguro, Kazuo. When We Were Orphans. New York: Knopf, 2000.

Kaga, O. Riding the East Wind. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1999.

Martin, Brian G. The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937. Los Angeles: California, 1996.

Miller, Edward S. War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan 1897-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute, 1991.

Schaller, Michael. The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945. New York: Columbia, 1979.

Seagrave, Sterling. The Soong Dynasty. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.

Sergeant, Harriet. Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939. New York: Crown, 1990.

Sheridan, James E. China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History, 1912-1949. New York: Free Press, 1975.

Shewmaker, Kenneth E. Americans and Chinese Communists, 1927-1945. Ithaca: Cornell, 1971.

Snow, Edgar. Red Star Over China. New York: Grove Press, 1938.

Thorne, Christopher. The Limits of Foreign Policy: The West, the League and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1933. New York: Putnam, 1973.

Wakeman, Frederic. Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937. Los Angeles: California, 1995.

___. The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941. New York: Cambridge, 1996.

Wasserstein, Bernard. Secret War in Shanghai: An Untold Story of Espionage, Intrigue, and Terror in World War II. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Wetzler, Peter. Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan. Honolulu: Hawaii, 1998.

Wilson, Dick. When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.New York: Viking, 1982.

Zacharias, Ellis M. Secret Missions: The Story of an Intelligence Officer. Annapolis: Naval Institute, 1961.

Fascism

Blinkhorn, Martin. Fascism and the Right in Europe, 1919-1945. New York: Longmans, 2000.

de Courcy, Anne. Diana Mosely: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel. New York: Morrow, 2003.

De Grazia, Victoria. How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945. Los Angeles: California, 1992.

Durham, Martin. Women and Fascism. New York: Rutledge, 1998.

Eatwell, Roger. Fascism. New York: Penguin, 1995.

Goodman, Peter. Hitler and the Vatican: Inside the Secret Archives that Reveal the New Story of the Nazis and the Church. New York: Free Press, 2004.

Grover, Warren. Nazis in Newark. New Brunswick: Twayne, 2002.

Jeansonne, Glen. Women of the Far Right: The Mothers Movement and World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

___. Gerald L. K. Smith: Minister of Hate. New Haven: Yale, 1988.

Kedward, H. R. Fascism in Western Europe, 1900-45. New York: NYU Press, 1971.

Laqueur, Walter and George L. Mosse, eds. International Fascism, 1920-1945. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

Laqueur, Walter. Fascism: Past, Present, Future. New York: Oxford, 1996.

Lovell, Mary S. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

Payne, Stanley G. Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977. Madison: Wisconsin, 1999.

___. Fascism: Comparison and Definition. Madison: Wisconsin, 1980.

Paxton, Robert O. The Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Knopf, 2004.

Skidelsky, Robert. Oswald Mosley. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975.

Soucy, Robert. French Fascism: The Second Wave, 1933-1939. New Haven: Yale, 1995.

Sternhell, Zeev. The Birth of Fascist Ideology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

___. Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Thurlow, Richard. Fascism in Britain: From Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts to the National Front. London: I. B. Tauris, 1998.

West, Rebecca. The Meaning of Treason. London: Phoenix Press, 1949.

Wolin, Richard. The Seduction of "Unreason": The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Hitler:

Binion, Rudolph. Hitler Among the Germans. DeKalb: Northern Illinois, 1976.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: Harper and Row, 1962.

___. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Fest, Joachim C. Hitler. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1973.

Flood, Charles Bracelen. Hitler: The Path to Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.

Hamann, Brigitte. Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship. New York: Oxford, 1999.

Heiden, Konrad. Der Fuehrer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944.

Herzstein, Robert Edwin. Adolf Hitler and the German Trauma, 1913-1945. New York: Putnam's, 1973.

Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: Hubris, 1889-1936. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.

___. Hitler: Nemesis, 1936-1945. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

___. The Hitler 'Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich. New York; Oxford, 1987.

___. Hitler: Profiles in Power. New York: Longman, 1991.

Machtan, Lothar. The Hidden Hitler. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Overy, R. J. Goering: The 'Iron Man.' London: RKP, 1984.

Padfield, Peter. Himmler. New York: Henry Holt, 1990.

Redlich, Fritz. Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet. New York: Oxford, 1998.

Rosenbaum, Ron. Explaining Hitler. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

Toland, John. Adolf Hitler. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976.

Waite, Robert G. L. Adolf Hitler: Psychopathic God. New York: Basic Books, 1977.

Nazism:

Abel, Theodore. Why Hitler Came Into Power. Cambridge: Harvard, 1986.

Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation. New York: Edward Arnold, 1985.

Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

___. The Nazi Conscience. Cambridge: Harvard, 2003.

Mandell, Richard D. The Nazi Olympics. Champagne Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971.

Muller, Ingo. Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich. Cambridge: Harvard, 1991.

Owings, Alison. Frauen: German Women Recall. New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1994.

Proctor, Robert N. The Nazi War on Cancer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

News Outlets:

Edwards, John Carver. Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich. New York: Praeger, 1991.

Shirer, William L. Berlin Diary. New York: Knopf, 1940.

___. The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940. Boston: Little, Brown, Co., 1984.

Smith, Howard K. Last Train from Berlin. New York: Knopf, 1942.

Mussolini:

Diggins, John P. Mussolini and Fascism: Views from America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972.

Kirkpatrick, Ivone. Mussolini: A Study in Power. New York: Hawthorn, 1964.

Smith, Denis Mack. Mussolini: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1984.

Roosevelt and the New Deal

Stalin:

Amis, Martin. Korba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million. New York: Hyperion, 2002.

Deutscher, Isaac. Stalin: A Political Biography. New York: Oxford, 1949.

Laurie, Richard. The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin. Washington: Counterpoint, 1999.

Medvedev, Roy and Zhores. The Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy. New York: Overlook, 2003.

Seaton, Albert. Stalin as Military Commander. New York: Praeger, 1975.

Volkogonov, Dmitri. Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1988.

The Crimes and Purges:

Conquest, Robert. Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps. New York: Viking, 1978.

___. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. New York: Oxford, 1986.

___. The Great Terror: A Reassessment. New York: Oxford, 1990.

Garros, Veronique, et. al. Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

Ginzburg, Eugenia Semyonovna. Journey Into The Whirlwind. New York: Harvest, 1967.

Hindus, Maurice. Humanity Uprooted. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929.

Medvedev, Roy. Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism. New York: Columbia, 1989.

Scott, John. Behind the Urals: An American in Russia's City of Steel. Bloomington: Indiana, 1942.

Shalamov, Varlam. Kolyma Tales. New York: Penguin, 1980.