Stanley Weintraub - Böcker

"Det är en välskriven, faktafylld bok, som fått en omsorgsfull svensk språkdräkt." BTJ Efterlängtad nyutgåva av bästsäljare om första världskriget Julnatten 1914. Första världskriget har pågått i några månader och redan skördat tiotusent...

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Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in ...

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How could Bernard Shaw have found anything to admire in Queen Victoria? Or in the passionate evangelical General William Booth of the Salvation Army? What possible connections could there be between Shaw, the passionate socialist, and the Tory Win...

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He was the most notorious and misunderstood American artist of his time, and also the most influential. To this day James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is one of the most recognized names in painting because of his celebrated (and endlessly ...

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In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national v...

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Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shock- in some cases overseas, elation- was worldwide. While Americans attempted to go about celebrating as usual, the reality of the just-declared war was on eve...

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In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas , historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season- the epic story of the 1950 holiday season in Korea, when American troops faced extreme...

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The most controversial and significant aspect of U.S. immigration policy concerns those persons who enter the country illegally in order to seek employment. It is known that a significant proportion of the "temporary" immigrants remain--...

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The most controversial and significant aspect of U.S. immigration policy concerns those persons who enter the country illegally in order to seek employment. It is known that a significant proportion of the "temporary" immigrants remain--...

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Weintraub details the sweeping drama of three of Americas greatest five-star generals--Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Marshall--who led the U.S. to victory in World War II, and who shaped the following decades with their larger-than-life legacies as r...

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Stanley Weintraub, biographer of Queen Victoria and other major figures of her era, here unveils for the first time the largely hidden role of Prince Albert, establishing him as one of the greatest men of his days. Drawing on previously unexplored...

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In 11 Days In December, master historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub tells the remarkable story of the Battle of the Bulge as it has never been told before, from frozen foxholes to barn shelters to boxcars packed with wretched prisoners of wa...

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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, Cornel...

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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';A...

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People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. He turned Beatrice Webb into a witchlike virago in The Millionairess, Winston Churchill into an aspiring, blowhard politician in John Bull's ...

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The most controversial and significant aspect of U.S. immigration policy concerns those persons who enter the country illegally in order to seek employment. It is known that a significant proportion of the "e;temporary"e; immigrants remain...

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The most controversial and significant aspect of U.S. immigration policy concerns those persons who enter the country illegally in order to seek employment. It is known that a significant proportion of the "e;temporary"e; immigrants remain...

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Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Penn State University and the author of numerous histories and biographies including "Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, MacArthur's War, Lon...

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He was 27 and she just 16 when they met. An arranged marriage of first cousins, joining two branches of Europe's most powerful banking firm. Love and money were the cardinal preoccupations in Victorian life, and the Rothschilds abundantly possesse...

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From an acclaimed military historian comes the astonishing story of World War I's 1914 Christmas trucea spontaneous celebration when enemies became friends.It was one of history's most powerfulyet forgottenChristmas stories. It took place in the i...

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The Korean War -- America's forgotten war -- was one of our country's most brutal, claiming the lives of American soldiers at more than three times the rate of losses in Vietnam. At the helm was the towering military hero Douglas MacArthur, whose ...

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SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war. In the early months of WWI, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms, and joined in a spontaneous celebration with ...

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A startling new history of the Revolutionary War, told from the perspectives of both the colonists and the colonizers. For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance, exclusively from the p...

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11 Days in December tells the dramatic story of one of the grimmest points of World War II and its Christmas Eve turn toward victory.In December 1944, the Allied forces thought their campaign for securing Europe was in its final stages. But German...

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When the 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already been in office longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hittin...

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In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibi...

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In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibi...

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