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Combat gliders were called by some as Death Crates, Purple Heart Boxes, Flying Coffins and Tow Targets. This work is dedicated to those brave men under impossible odds from the British and American servicemen on D-Day, the doomed Operation Market Garden in Holland and Hitler's radical commando raid to rescue Mussolini.

Merriam Press World War 2 Historical Fiction. ÒGary Best takes the reader into a German prisoner of war camp and tells a story revealing the hopes, fears, humor, deprivations, and surprises of an experience most of us can only imagine. A lone American POW lands in a group of captured British officers and finds friendship, inspiration, and the rediscovery of a neglected talent that contributes to an unforgettable Christmas moment. Set in the fi...

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Belle of the brawl

Methodist historian and Warden of the New Room in Bristol has named John Wesley's horse Gospel and told the story of Wesley's preaching through Gospel's eye. Chikdren's book illustrated by Leah Heming

This model study is clearly a work for scholars.... [It] reflects exhaustive research, it is well narrated and offers cogent explanations of Hoover's general social ideas of market capitalism buttressed by co-operative planning of business and labor."-Library Journal

The first sustained scholarly critique of the New Deal from the conservative perspective, this study argues that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was, himself, the primary obstacle to American recovery from the Great Depression of 1933-38. In developing his arguments, author Gary Dean Best focuses on the fact that the depression continued through eight years of the Roosevelt administration, despite unprecedented intervention by the federal government...

To Free A People describes the earliest beginnings of the influential Jewish lobby: the efforts of Jewish leaders to generate an American response to the oppression of Jews in Eastern Europe around the turn of the century. Proposals to relocate Russian Jews in America, and the efforts of the Jewish lobby to repeal the treaty of commerce between Russia and the United States are examined. Best's book is the story of the emergence of internationa...

Challenges the existing stereotypes and conventional wisdom concerning liberalism during the 1930s.

This study shows that, despite numerous surface similarities, the popular culture of the 1930s was different from that of the 1920s in a variety of ways, and not only because of the Great Depression. It was a period of quiet desperation and shifting values, one in which nickels and dimes replaced dollars as the currency of popular culture, and in which the emphasis was on finding methods to occupy idle time and idle minds. Popular culture duri...

This book examines the underlying causes of the tumult of the 1920s in America, which has since captivated writers, readers, moviegoers, and television viewers. The author proposes that the impact of World War I, the popularization of Freud and Darwin, and the especially cataclysmic effects of the machine age shaped the lives of people living in this decade. He maintains that only in this context can much of the behavior of the time be underst...

For nearly three decades, the English political scientist Harold Laski was the gray eminence of American liberalism and the most influential Marxist public intellectual in American political life. As a fervent proponent of the New Deal in the 1930s, much of Laskis success stemmed from the fact that he offered answers when so many Americans had only questions. By the postwar years, however, his reputation was in decline and his well-understood ...

This book challenges generally accepted views by concluding that the critical press, so often characterized by pro-New Deal historians as conservative or reactionary, was in fact a good deal more "liberal" than Roosevelt and his advisors.

Fearful of another bonus march incident like the one in 1932 during the Hoover administration, the Roosevelt administration shipped hundreds of bonus marchers to "rehabilitation camps" in the South. Many of these marchers were sent to camps in the Florida Keys for work on the overseas highway project. At least 256 perished in the devastating hurricane of Labor Day, 1935, as a result of the failed leadership of their supervisors. This oral and ...

In Peddling Panaceas, Best introduces readers to three popular New Deal economists * Edward A. Rumely, Stuart Chase, and David Cushman Coyle - who not only influenced policy but also educated the American public about the Depression. Their views and influence help us understand the economic and political climate of the 1930s.

The Southwest Virginia murder trials of a young schoolteacher named Edith Maxwell made her a "cause celebre" of the 1930s. The trials involve sociological issues - the conflict between moderism and tradition, between urban and rural values, between the sexes, and between the generations.

Combat gliders were called by some as 'Death Crates', 'Purple Heart Boxes', 'Flying Coffins' and 'Tow Targets.' They were not pretty and had no graceful lines. Viewed from the front, they had a pug nose and a sloping Neanderthal forehead. Their wings looked like the heavily starched ears of a jackrabbit placed at right angles on a canvascovered fra

Grace Murray is the woman who John Wesley loved and lost. After decades of relative historical neglect, Murray is beginning to receive recognition as worthy of a distinguished place in the annals of early Methodism. Gary Best, Warden of the New Room, Bristol, challenges the established view of Wesley's relationship with Grace Murray.

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