Here you have a tight, well-wrought first-hand account of a Marine’s experience at the Battle of Okinawa rendered in about 40 pages scattered throughout a nearly-400 page book. But it might be worth it, depending on your interest in the subject. When Manchester sticks to events that actually ha...
Until the last year or so, I had not often chosen to read books about history. I think I was just too put off by memorizing dates and names in high school. But I've been impressed with the books I've read recently and my interest is piqued. And this book came highly recommended to me by my hub...
This book has been sitting on my shelf for years waiting to be re-read; its pages discolored, its cover cracked but its story as fresh in 2009 as it was in 1984.Undoubtedly, the greatest military mind in the history of the United States, Douglas MacArthur can only be understood by the standards o...
Universally acclaimed for their compelling narrative, their fresh insights, and their objective renderings of Winston Churchill's life, THE LAST LION trilogy presents a revelatory and unparalleled portrait of this brilliant, flawed, and dynamic adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman. Born...
At the point of the wedge crouched its spearhead, the Fifth Marines. After five days of waiting in the wilderness of the Forêt d'Argonne, cloaked and soaked in a blinding fog, the leathernecks sprang forward behind a creeping artillery barrage and quickly overran the main trench line on the heigh...
W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin: 1941–1946 (New York, 1975), 283; WSC 5, 405. 2. C&R-TCC, 2:709. 3. Louis P. Lochner, The Goebbels Diaries, 1942–1943 (New York, 1948), 536. 4. Lochner, Goebbels Diaries, 536, 540–42. 5. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and...
Painting by Fra Bartolomeo della Porta. Alinari-Scala/Art Resource, NY. Page 43 A sixteenth-century town wall. From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis copyright 1923 by Harper & Brothers; copyright renewed 1951 by William Stearns Davis. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins...