Jun 17
In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed to the new National Socialists (Nazis). In November 1923, Adolf [...]
Jun 17
In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire [...]
Jun 17
From Library JournalTexan Audie Murphy was the most highly decorated G.I. of World War II, being awarded almost every medal the Army could offer as well as the Congressional Medal of Honor. His memoir of the war is a classic, still retaining some popularity. Tom Parker brings this terse yet vivid and articulate memoir to [...]
Jun 17
From Publishers WeeklyFew battles in any war were as terrible as the February–March 1945 battle of Iwo Jima. Nearly 6,000 American marines and 21,000 Japanese soldiers died on the small Pacific island, and more than 17,000 Americans were wounded in the vicious fighting. This evocative memoir recounts the battle from the perspective of Mississippi author [...]
Jun 17
Amid all of the criticisms of America’s war in Iraq, one essential voice has remained silent—until now. In his groundbreaking new memoir, Wiser in Battle, Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, former commander of coalition forces in Iraq, reports back from the front lines of the global war on terror to provide a comprehensive and [...]
Jun 17
From Publishers WeeklyPoet and biographer Epstein (Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington) never explains the rationale for this reliable but familiar account of the Lincolns’ frequently tempestuous marriage. If he had access to previously untapped sources, he does nothing to highlight them, and there’s little reason why this book should supersede either [...]
Jun 17
Amazon.comA biography of Meriwether Lewis that relies heavily on the journals of both Lewis and Clark, this book is also backed up by the author’s personal travels along Lewis and Clark’s route to the Pacific. Ambrose is not content to simply chronicle the events of the “Corps of Discovery” as the explorers called their ventures. [...]
Jun 17
From Publishers WeeklyTillman, the mother of the late professional football player and U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman, and former journalist Zacchino collaborate for this disturbing story of a mother’s desperate search for the truth of her son’s death. Pat Tillman constantly defied expectations; following 9/11, he shocked his family and football fans everywhere when he [...]
Jun 15
Amazon.comThe voice of a vanished England speaks from the pages of Winston Churchill’s evocative memoir of his first 30 years (1874-1904). The young Churchill inhabits a world in which men fight like hell in meaningless colonial wars–India, Egypt, South Africa–soldiering across the imperial map then extending the hand of friendship to their erstwhile enemy as [...]
Jun 15
About the AuthorWilliam Manchester is Adjunct Professor of History and Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University. His fourteen books, which have been translated into eighteen languages and Braille, include The Death of a President, The Arms of Krupp, The Glory and the Dream, American Caesar, and Goodbye, Darkness.
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