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William Manchester
Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight…
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The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world leader. Discussion centers on the alarm he sounded about the terrible plot being…
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An altogether absorbing popular biography … The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father…
In this beautifully written, bestselling account of the death of John F. Kennedy, Manchester speaks with a sense of immediacy and authenticity about what really happened and why. A book…
Virtually all Americans above a certain age hold strong opinions about Douglas MacArthur. Endowed with arrogance, great charm, an iron will, and a soaring intellect, General MacArthur was a fascinating…
This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972, encompassing politics, military history, economics, the lively arts, science, fashion…
This book tells the extraordinary 400 year saga of the family that provided arms to the Kaiser and to Hitler and in so doing wielded enormous power and influence.
Inspiring, outrageous…A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank of General of the United States Army. He served…
Originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row, 1967.
This emotional and honest novel recounts a young man’s experiences during World War II and digs deep into what he and his fellow soldiers lived through during those dark times…
Updated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a captivating and marvelously vivid popular history of the Middle Ages…
With the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth…
This fine biography of H. L. Mencken tells of how, for better or worse, he rose to his unique position as comic genius and preeminent critic of American culture. In…
Manchester’s marvelously vivid popular history humanizes the tumultuous span from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance.
The first volume in William Manchester’s masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill’s life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill’s life–the years that…
The second volume of William Manchester’s masterful account of Winston Churchill’s life.
Alone is the second volume of William Manchester’s brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this volume, we…
William Manchester,Eric Garner
In the second of his three-volume biography, Manchester challenges the assumption that Churchill’s finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, Churchill stood almost alone against Nazi…
In this narrative of extraordinary richness, depth, and authority, America’s preeminent biographer/historian explored the German national character as no other writer has done.
The Arms of Krupp brings to life…
In this narrative of extraordinary richness, depth, and authority, America’s preeminent biographer/historian explored the German national character as no other writer has done. The Arms of Krupp brings to life…
Spanning 1940 to 1965, this volume picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became prime ministerwhen Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill described here is a…
William Manchester,Paul Reid
Majestic - The Washington Post Breathtaking - The Boston Globe
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An up-close look at John F. Kennedy by one of his closest confidants, a New York Times-bestselling biographer
Written by a prize-winning historian and biographer of such giants as Winston…
In this intensely powerful memoir, Americas preeminent biographer-historian looks back at his own early life and gives an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific.
Spanning the years 1940-1965, this third volume in Manchester’s biography picks up shortly after Churchill became prime minister, as his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of…
Vol. numbering extrapolated from preliminaries and text.
William Manchester was friends with John F. Kennedy for decades, and in this book he puts aside the tragedy of JFK’s death to to celebrate the brightness of his life…
William Manchester was friends with John F. Kennedy for two decades before the President’s assassination. In this work, the bestselling author of Portrait of a President and The Death of…
The book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable account of World War II…
Paul Williams
A wonderfully illustrated history of Manchester’s buses, showing how the city and its transport have changed from the 1960s through to the twenty-first century.
