Best of
Historical

1946

The World Is Not Enough


Zoé Oldenbourg - 1946
    This first of Oldenbourg's acclaimed historical novels chronicles the lives of nobles in 12th-century France and the catastrophic upheavals of the Second and Third Crusades.

Rescue in Ravensdale


Esme Cartmell - 1946
    An entertaining story set in 1939 about the adventures Roger Levington has when he spends a fortnight in Yorkshire with his aunt, uncle, and four younger female cousins.

Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art


Thomas C. Howe Jr. - 1946
    Forces, European Theatre (MFA&A), immediately following the end of World War II in 1945. Often simply referred to as the “Monuments Men,” this group of unlikely soldiers included art curators, scholars, architects, librarians, and archivists from the U.S. and Great Britain. Their war-time mission was to identify and protect European cultural sites, monuments, and buildings from Allied bombing. After the war, and the focus of this book, their mission was the challenging effort to locate and recover works of art that had been looted by the Nazis.Uncovered were thousands of pieces of art—including priceless paintings by Leonardo DaVinci and Johannes Vermeer, sculptures by Michelangelo, and the Rothschild jewels—hidden across Germany and Austria in underground mines, castles, churches and monasteries. Following the recovery of the art, the no less daunting task of inventorying the thousands of items, identification of the owners, restoration of damaged works, and transporting delicate canvases and sculptures to their home countries began. Included in this edition is a new Introduction by Steve W. Chadde and twenty-four pages of photographs illustrating the collection of art by Nazi leaders, plus the recovery of looted pieces by the Allies.

Not By Bread Alone


Vilhjálmur Stefánsson - 1946
    He noted their general healthiness (and good teeth), and an absence of many of the diseases that plagued western cultures, such as scurvy, heart disease, and diabetes. Observing their dietary habits, he determined that their primary food was meat, both lean and fatty, and that their diets were very low in sugary or starchy carbohydrates. Was this meaty diet the key to their good health?Stefansson’s classic Not By Bread Alone chronicles a 1928 scientific experiment, conducted by the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology at Bellevue Hospital in New York, in which Stefansson and his colleague Dr. Karsten Andersen ate a meat-only diet for one year. The two men stayed healthy and fared very well, leading him to claim that we should reexamine our notion of what foods constitute a healthy diet.Later chapters promote the benefits of pemmican, a compact, portable, and high-energy food consisting of a concentrated mix of fat and protein made from dried lean bison meat, sometimes mixed with berries. Pemmican is like the original energy bar, and Stefansson spent considerable time and energy urging the military to adopt it for emergency rations.

Primitive Hymns


Benjamin Lloyd - 1946
    "The Primitive Hymns, Spiritual Songs, and Sacred Poems, regularly selected, classified and set in order and adapted to social singing and all occasions of divine worship by Benjamin Lloyd, minister of the Gospel."