Stanley Weintraub

An account of the 1944 Battle of the Bulge between Allied forces and Hitler's surviving army describes how Germany broke through Allied lines in the Ardennes Forest, sparking a ten-day conflict that proved pivotal to the war's outcome.

Relates the story of the end of the siege of Savannah, led by General William T. Sherman, after which the general "gave" President Lincoln the city as a Christmas gift, and explores events of the holiday that year.

The year is 1944, a president is under siege, there is a war-wrecked economy, an influx of returning war veterans, and a challenge to Social Security. When the wartime 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already occupied the White House years longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hitting hard at FDR's liberal domestic...

Just a few of the words of presidential wisdom found in Dear Young Friend: "I rejoice that you have learnt to write,... for as this is done with a goosequill, you know the value of a goose." —Thomas Jefferson, to his granddaughter, Cornelia Randolph "As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a bit of silly affection if were to begin now?" —Abraham Lincoln to Grace Bedell "If we are successful [in the election],...

Biography of Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

From an acclaimed historian and National Book Award finalist comes the poignant story of World War I's 1914 Christmas truce, the spontaneous and tantalizingly brief moment when mortal enemies came together as friends. Photos. Illustrations. It was one of history's most powerful, yet forgotten- Christmas stories. It took place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain and senseless killing of the trenches of World War I. It happened in spite...

This classic traces the life of Joan of Arc from the time she appears to her regional governor, her visit to the Dauphin (where she is undeceived by his disguise) to the siege of Orleans, coronation at Rheims, trial and recantation, and culminating with her death at the stake. Followed by the famous epilogue regarding her canonization, Shaw explores the themes of faith, nationalism and Protestantism. Called variously "the greatest play in English...

Douglas MacArthur towers over twentieth-century American history. His fame is based chiefly on his World War II service in the Philippines. Yet Korea, America's forgotten war, was far more "MacArthur's war", and it remains one of our most brutal and frightening. In just three years thirty-five thousand Americans lost their lives -- more than three times the rate of losses in Vietnam. Korea, like Vietnam, was a breeding ground for the crimes of war....

A dual-sided history of the Revolutionary War examines the conflict from both the colonial and British sides, documenting the nearly violent political disagreements in Parliament, as well as the American-sympathetic pacifist media criticism of King George III that may have played a major role in the war's outcome. For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance, exclusively from the perspective...

In each of the past three centuries, a Prince of Wales has waited most of his life to become King, from George IV to Edward VII to Prince Charles. Each one disappointed his reigning parent. Each had an unhappy marriage and famous affairs. But only one single-handedly gave his name to an age: the future Edward VII, Albert Edward, oldest son of Queen Victoria. How did such a roguish Prince to come such a beloved King? The story of "Bertie" is the story...