Gordon A. Craig
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Gordon A. Craig is J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford. His latest book is Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. (December 2003)
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February 26, 2004: 'Talking All the Way' (letter)
December 4, 2003: The Goblin at War
Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity by Alexander B. Rossino
Hitler's Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland,and the USSR, 1940–1945 by Chris Mann and Christer Jörgensen
Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences, 1942–1945 edited by Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz, with an introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg; translated from the German by Roland Winter, Krista Smith, and Mary Beth Friedrich
May 15, 2003: Talking All the Way
Winston Churchill by John Keegan
Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. by John Lukacs
In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain by David Cannadine
December 5, 2002: The Magic Circle
The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743–1933 by Amos Elon
October 24, 2002: Hitler's Pal
Speer: The Final Verdict by Joachim Fest, translated from the German by Ewald Osers and Alexandra Dring
October 10, 2002: Whose War Is It?
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot A. Cohen
The Art of War: War and Military Thought by Martin van Creveld
September 26, 2002: Great Scots!
How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
May 23, 2002: The Russians Are Coming!
The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
April 25, 2002: 'A Very Strange Machine'
Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine by Patrick Wright
February 28, 2002: 'A Talented Amateur'
The Hidden Hitler by Lothar Machtan, translated from the German by John Brownjohn
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately
Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 by Richard Overy
Inside Hitler's High Command by Geoffrey P. Megargee
December 20, 2001: Racing with the Moon
Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel by Douglas Botting
November 1, 2001: Founding Father
Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany by Charles Williams
September 20, 2001: Keeping Germany Fat
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews by Harold James
Doing Business with the Nazis: Britain's Economic and Financial Relations with Germany, 1931–1939 by Neil Forbes, with a foreword by Richard Overy
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black
April 12, 2001: The X-Files
The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the US Army Joseph W. Bendersky
"Communazis": FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers Alexander Stephan
November 2, 2000: Fate & the Führer
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945 by Pierre Ayçoberry, Translated from the French by Janet Lloyd
August 10, 2000: Not Wholly Holy
Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play by James Shapiro
The Passion Play 2000: Oberammergau edited by the Community of Oberammergau, with contributions by Otto Huber and Christian Stückl, photographs by Brigitte Maria Mayer
June 29, 2000: The Goethe Case (letter)
April 13, 2000: Germany's Greatest
Das Goethe-Tabu: Protest und Menschenrechte im klassischen Weimar by W. Daniel Wilson
Goethe: The Poet and the Age Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation (1790-1803) by Nicholas Boyle
Das Inkognito: Goethes ganz andere Existenz in Rom by Roberto Zapperi
Christiane und Goethe: Eine Recherche by Sigrid Damm
December 2, 1999: Mission Possible
A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry by Andy Marino
Surrender On Demand by Varian Fry
November 4, 1999: The End of the Golden Age
Einstein's German World by Fritz Stern
June 24, 1999: The War Against War
Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross by Caroline Moorehead
The Good Listener: Helen Bamber, A Life Against Cruelty by Neil Belton
May 6, 1999: 'LTI' Endures (letter)
March 18, 1999: 'Working Toward the Führer'
Germans into Nazis by Peter Fritzsche
Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Appenticeship by Brigitte Hamann, translated by Thomas Thornton
Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich by David Clay Large
December 3, 1998: Destiny in Any Case
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer, translated by Martin Chalmers
Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten: Tagebücher 1933-1945 by Victor Klemperer, edited by Walter Nowojski
August 13, 1998: The Good, the Bad & the Bourgeois
Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism by Carl E. Schorske
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay
My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin by Peter Gay
June 11, 1998: How to Think About the Swiss
The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine by Jean Ziegler
Hitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold, and the Pursuit of Justice by Isabel Vincent
Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust by Adam LeBor
Movements of Nazi Gold: Uncovering the Trail by Sidney Zabludoff
April 9, 1998: The Other Mann
Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 edited and with an introduction by Hans Wysling, and a foreword by Anthony Heilbut, translated by Don Reneau
The Loyal Subject by Heinrich Mann, edited by Helmut Peitsch, translated by Ernest Boyd, by Daniel Theisen. The German Library, Volume 64.
February 5, 1998: 'Spoils of War' (letter)
November 20, 1997: Man of the People?
The Hitler of History by John Lukacs
October 9, 1997: Among the Missing
The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property edited by Elizabeth Simpson
The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art by Hector Feliciano
May 29, 1997: Becoming Hitler
Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.
Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume One: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 by Saul Friedländer
Confronting the Nazi Past: New Debates on Modern German History edited by Michael Burleigh
January 9, 1997: Prophets
From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 1996-January 19, 1997. An exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 8,. Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Vivian B. Mann, edited by Richard I. Cohen
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time by Amos Elon
November 14, 1996: The Drama of Gottfried Semper
Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century by Harry Francis Mallgrave
October 31, 1996: The New Germany
The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany by Jane Kramer
September 19, 1996: The Devil in the Details
Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich by David Irving
May 23, 1996: 'Hitler's Willing Executioners': An Exchange
April 18, 1996: How Hell Worked
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany by John VH Dippel
February 29, 1996: The Mann Nobody Knew
Thomas Mann: Eine Biographie by Klaus Harpprecht
Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman
Thomas Mann: A Life by Donald Prater
Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by Anthony Heilbut
Tagebücher 1954–1955 by Thomas Mann, edited by Inge Jens
November 2, 1995: In Love With Hitler
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
October 5, 1995: Under an Evil Star
Nazi Germany: A New History by Klaus P. Fischer
The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander
April 20, 1995: No More Parades
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan
The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert
Victory Must Be Ours: Germany in the Great War, 1914–1918 by Laurence V. Moyer, Introduction by John Keegan
November 17, 1994: Loot
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas
The Spoils of World War II: The American Military's Role in the Stealing of Europe's Treasures by Kenneth D. Alford
July 14, 1994: An Inability to Mourn
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma
May 12, 1994: Looking for Order
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
March 24, 1994: The True Believer
Goebbels by Ralf Georg Reuth, translated by Krishna Winston
Goebbels and 'Der Angriff' by Russel Lemmons
Joseph Goebbels: ein nationaler Sozialist by Ulrich Höver
January 13, 1994: United We Fall
The Rush to German Unity by Konrad H. Jarausch
Beyond the Wall: Germany's Road to Unification by Elizabeth Pond
German Unification in the European Context by Peter H. Merkl, with a contribution by Gert-Joachim Glaessner
May 13, 1993: Letters On Dark Times
Hannah Arendt Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 1926–1969 edited by Lotte Kohler, by Hans Saner, translated by Robert Kimber, by Rita Kimber
December 17, 1992: Good Germans
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Contending with Hitler: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich edited by David Clay Large
For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler by Victoria Barnett
German Resistance Against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad, 1938–1945 by Klemens von Klemperer
A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz by Giles MacDonogh
June 11, 1992: The Master Builder
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man 31–October 27, 1991 An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, July
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Michael Snodin
Karl Friedrich Schinkel by Helmut Börsch-Supan
Collection of Architectural Designs, including designs which have been executed and objects whose execution was intended by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Reise nach England, Schottland und Paris im Jahre 1826 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, edited with an introduction and notes by Gottfried Riemann, an essay by David Bindmann
April 9, 1992: Above the Abyss
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
February 13, 1992: Demonic Democracy
Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber by Lawrence A. Scaff
Max Weber Briefe 1906–1908 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung II, Band V) edited by M. Rainer Lepsius, edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Birgit Rudhard, by Manfred Schön
November 7, 1991: The Big Apfel
German Encounters with Modernity: Novels of Imperial Berlin by Katherine Roper
Berlin: Culture and Metropolis edited by Charles W. Haxthausen, edited by Heidrun Suhr
Berlin: The Politics of Order, 1737–1989 by Alan Balfour
Battleground Berlin: Diaries, 1945–1948 by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, translated by Anna Boerresen
Berlin Before the Wall: A Foreign Student's Diary with Sketches by Hsi-Huey Liang
Up Against It: Photographs of the Berlin Wall by Leland Rice
Berlin Journal, 1989–1990 by Robert Darnton
After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin by John Borneman
September 26, 1991: Glasgow's Glasgow (letter)
April 25, 1991: 'Glesca Belongs to Me!'
The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
Greyhound for Breakfast by James Kelman
A Disaffection by James Kelman
Lean Tales by James Kelman, by Agnes Owens, by Alasdair Gray
The Burn by James Kelman
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties by Alasdair Gray
1982 Janine by Alasdair Gray
McGrotty and Ludmilla or The Harbinger Report by Alasdair Gray
Something Leather by Alasdair Gray
January 31, 1991: The Reich Stuff
Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa August–November 1990 an exhibition at the Deutsches Historische Museum, Berlin,
Bismarck—Preussen, Deutschland und Europa catalog of the exhibition
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. I: The Period of Unification, 1815–1871 by Otto Pflanze
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. II: The Period of Consolidation, 1871–1880 by Otto Pflanze
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. III: The Period of Fortification, 1880–1898 by Otto Pflanze
Bismarck: Das Reich in der Mitte Europas by Ernst Engelberg
December 6, 1990: Witness
Before the Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia by Marion Countess Dönhoff, translated by Jean Steinberg, foreword by George F. Kennan
Weit ist der Weg nach Osten: Berichte und Betrachtungen aus funf Jahrzehnten by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
Foe into Friend: The Makers of the New Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Schmidt by Marion Dönhoff, translated by Gabriele Annan
Preussen—Mass und Masslosigkeit by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
June 28, 1990: The Way to the Wall
German History, 1770-1866 (The Oxford History of Modern Europe), by James J. Sheehan
Bismarck, The White Revolutionary, Vol. I, 1815-1871, Vol. II, 1871-1898 by Lothar Gall, translated by J.A. Underwood
Bürgertum in Deutschland by Lothar Gall
Die Deutschen in ihrem Jahrhundert 1890-1990 by Christian Graf von Krockow
Letters to Freya, 1939-1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited and translated by Beate Ruhm von Oppen
March 15, 1990: Tribune of the Republic
A Present of Things Past: Selected Essays by Theodore Draper
January 18, 1990: A New, New Reich?
A History of West Germany Volume 1: From Shadow to Substance, 1945–1963; Volume 2: Democracy and Its Discontents, 1963–1988 by Dennis L. Bark, by David R. Gress
The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty edited by Peter H. Merkl
Germany, America, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy by Wolfram F. Hanrieder
Die Erinnerungen by Franz Josef Strauss
Men and Powers: A Political Retrospective by Helmut Schmidt, translated by Ruth Hein
La Nation orpheline: Les Allemagnes en Europe by Anne-Marie Le Gloannec
The Germans: Rich, Bothered and Divided the fall) by David Marsh
A German Identity, 1770–1990 by Harold James
October 12, 1989: Making Way for Hitler
How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939 by Donald Cameron Watt
Chamberlain and Roosevelt: British Foreign Policy and the United States, 1937–1940 by William R. Rock
Der Eisbrecher: Hitler in Stalins Kalkül by Viktor Suworow
August 17, 1989: The Grand Decider
The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
A Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam—The Story of America's Rise to Power by Geoffrey Perret
The Wages of War: When America's Soldiers Came Home—From Valley Forge to Vietnam by Richard Severo, by Lewis Milford
Technology and War: From 2000 BC to the Present by Martin van Creveld
Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression by Robert L. O'Connell
The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan
War: Ends and Means by Paul Seabury, by Angelo Codevilla
The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon by Robert Jervis
June 15, 1989: The Rising Star of the German Right
Ich war dabei by Franz Schönhuber
Freunde in der Not by Franz Schönhuber
Macht: Roman eines Freistaats by Franz Schönhuber
Trotz allem Deutschland by Franz Schönhuber
March 30, 1989: Dangerous Liaisons
Der Teufelspakt: Die deutsch-russischen Beziehungen vom Ersten zum Zweiten Weltkrieg by Sebastian Haffner
The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939–1941 by Anthony Read, by David Fisher
Between Churchill and Stalin: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance by Steven Merritt Miner
February 2, 1989: Facing Up to the Nazis
Withstanding Hitler in Germany: 1933–1945 by Michael Balfour
Die Hassell-Tagebücher 1938–1944: Aufzeichnungen vom anderen Deutschland by Ulrich von Hassell, revised and expanded from the manuscript by Klaus Peter Reiss, edited by Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen
Briefe an Freya, 1930–1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited by Beate Ruhm von Oppen
Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader by Ronald Smelser
Göring: A Biography by David Irving
The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity by Charles S. Maier
November 24, 1988: The Other Russian Army
Die Geschichte der Wlassow-Armee by Joachim Hoffmann
General Wlassow: Russen und Deutsche zwischen Hitler und Stalin by Sergej Fröhlich, revised and edited by Edel von Freier
Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Émigré Theories by Catherine Andreyev
June 30, 1988: Politics of a Plague
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830–1910 by Richard J. Evans
May 12, 1988: Rahel's 'Jewish Sofa'
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin by Deborah Hertz
Jettchen Gebert by Georg Hermann, edited by Dr. Bernhard Kaufhold
April 28, 1988: The Art of War
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500–1800 by Geoffrey Parker
The Mask of Command by John Keegan
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace by Edward N. Luttwak
February 18, 1988: The Kaiser and the Kritik
Kaiser, Hof und Staat: Wilhlem II und die deutsche Politik by John C.G. Röhl
Max Weber and German Politics: 1890–1920 by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Michael S. Steinberg
Max Weber zur Politik im Weltkrieg: Schriften und Reden, 1914–1918 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung 1, Band 15) edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Gangolf Hübner
Max Weber and his Contemporaries edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, edited by Jürgen Osterhammel
October 8, 1987: After the Reich
Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History by Fritz Stern
The Two Germanies since 1945 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.
A Voice From Germany speeches by Richard von Weizsäcker, translated by Karin von Abrams
Die Abschiedsrede [The Farewell Speech] by Willy Brandt
August 13, 1987: The Good Soldier
George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945–1959 by Forrest C. Pogue
July 16, 1987: Getting Along with Hitler
Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life by Detlev J.K. Peukert, translated by Richard Deveson
In Hitler's Germany: Daily Life in the Third Reich by Bernt Engelmann, translated by Krishna Winston
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, The Family, and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz
June 25, 1987: A Swiss Passion
Green Henry by Gottfried Keller, translated by A.M. Holt
February 26, 1987: Waldheim's Austria (letter)
January 15, 1987: The War of the German Historians
Zweierlei Untergang: Die Zerschlagung des Deutschen Reiches und das Ende des Europäischen Judentums by Andreas Hillgruber
Dissonanzen des Fortschritts: Essays über Geschichte und Politik in Deutschland by Michael Stürmer
Nach Hitler: Der Schwierige Umgang mit Unserer Geschichte: Beiträge von Martin Broszat edited by Hermann Graml, edited by Klaus-Dietmar Henke
Nachdenken über die Deutsche Geschichte: Essays by Thomas Nipperdey
October 9, 1986: The Waldheim File
Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism by Bruce F. Pauley
Hitler's Hometown: Linz, Austria, 1908-1945 by Evan Burr Bukey
Kurt Waldheim's Hidden Past: An Interim Report to the President, World Jewish Congress World Jewish Congress (June 2, 1986)
Die Reichsidee bei Konstantin Frantz Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien (1944) (Courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center.) by Kurt Waldheim
In the Eye of the Storm: A Memoir by Kurt Waldheim
September 25, 1986: The Other Germany
German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach by Andreas Dorpalen
Bismarck, Urpreuße Und Reichsgründer by Ernst Engelberg
East Germany and Détente: Building Authority After the Wall by A. James McAdams
Geschichte Der DDR. by Hermann Weber
"Und Willst Du Nicht Mein Bruder Sein…" Die DDR Heute by Timothy Garton Ash
April 10, 1986: 'Schreibt un Farschreibt!'
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews in Europe During the Second World War by Martin Gilbert
The Other Holocaust: Many Circles of Hell by Bohdan Wytwycky
A Private War: Surviving in Poland on False Papers, 1941–1945 by Bruno Shatyn, translated by Oscar E. Swan, with a foreword by Norman Davies
Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939–1944 by Richard C. Lukas
Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945 by Deborah E. Lipstadt
January 30, 1986: The German Mystery Case
The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany by David Blackbourn, by Geoff Eley
Reflexionen Finsterer Zeit: Zwei Vorträge by Fritz Stern, by Hans Jonas
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich by Jeffrey Herf
The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism by Woodruff D. Smith
June 13, 1985: Outsiders
German Jews Beyond Judaism by George L. Mosse
The German Jew: A Synthesis of Judaism and Western Civilization, 1730–1930 by H.I. Bach
July 21, 1983: Hitler Without His Diaries
Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913 by J. Sydney Jones
The Nazi Machtergreifung edited by Peter D. Stachura
The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor by David Irving
Hitler und die Endlösung: "Es ist des Führers Wunsch" of California Press next spring. by Gerald Fleming
June 30, 1983: Bradley's Class
A General's Life: An Autobiography by Omar N. Bradley, by Clay Blair
December 2, 1982: Mein liebes Tagebuch,
Thomas Mann: Diaries 1918-1939 selection and foreword by Hermann Kesten, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
November 19, 1981: The White Revolutionary
Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw
Books by Gordon A. Craig
The Battle of Koniggratz: Prussia's Victory over Austria, 1866 (2003)
Politics and Culture in Modern Germany: Essays from the New York Review of Books (1999)
Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich (1999)
Uber Fontane (1997)
The Politics of the Unpolitical: German Writers and the Problem of Ower, 1770-1871 (1995)
The Triumph of Liberalism: Zurich in the Golden Age, 1830-1869 (1988)
The End of Prussia (1984)
Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Time (1983)
The Germans (1982)
Germany, 1866-1945 (1978)
Europe Since 1815 (1974)
The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945 (1964)