An acclaimed historian reveals how Roosevelt and his cabinet engineered America’s entry into—and ultimate victory in—World War II.
A conclusion to the trilogy that includes The Rising Tide and The Steel Wave imagines the Battle of the Bulge from the perspectives of Eisenhower, Patton, Churchill, Hitler and an assortment of young soldiers. Reprint.
The triumphant story of baseball and America after World War II. In 1945 Major League Baseball had become a ghost of itself.
... major on the intelligence staff of Rear Admiral Ralph O. Davis at Camp Pendleton, on the Pacific coast in California. ... Frightened by the sudden seizure, James offered to call the President's doctor, Vice Admiral Ross McIntire, ...
... 208 women voters , 294 “ World must be made safe for democracy , The " , 99 war crimes , 257 War Graves Commission , 312 War Policy Committee , 107 , 108 war trials , 303 Warde - Aldham , Colonel , 78 Ware , Sir Fabian , 312 Warsaw ...
How exactly doesone demolish a spiky tetrahedron with wire and mines dangling offit? Along with those early units wentanother groupof specialists, the naval “spotters,”to scramble onshore toanearby hilland control the firefromthe ...
From the inner councils of the Japanese to the fateful decisions to atom-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Stanley Weintraub brings to life this watershed month in which empires fell, old orders...
FDR managed to get a call through to Joseph B. Poindexter, the governor of Hawaii, who was in the midst of giving him a firsthand account of the assault when the governor's voice was drowned out by a roar. After Poindexter again became ...
Weinberg compares eight World War II leaders, their hopes, and the history that might have been.
Price's notes did not record the date, but sometime in the spring of 1942 Lieutenant C. G. Burwell gave Price a copy of the navy's plan to outlaw nearly all newspaper references to specific troop units and ships.
Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer.