The following books were purchased with money provided by the School Advisory Council (SAC). Your donation to the CEC library is greatly appreciated.
“From National Book Award Finalist and Sibert Honor Author Albert Marrin, a timely examination of Red Scares in the United States, including the Rosenbergs, the Hollywood Ten and the McCarthy era.” -Amazon
“Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria, drawing on new first-hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists among many others.” -Amazon
“In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States.” -Amazon “In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil.” -Publisher
