Stanley Weintraub – författare

"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 tiotusentals offer. Då börjar ett tyskt kompani plötsligt att sjunga Stilla natt. Snart lyser julgranar med tända ljus upp nattmörkret. Obeväpnade soldater byter julklappar med varandra, begraver sina döda kamrater och spelar till och med fotboll tillsammans. De högre befälen tvingas motvilligt och hjälplöst att se på. Historikern Stanley Weintraubs Stilla natt är en stark skildring av krigets fasor, men också av mänsklig storhet, mod och värme. "En osannolik förbrödring över skyttegravarna ... [Weintraub] återger många mer eller mindre fantastiska episoder från en sönderbombad spökvärld, där det mirakulöst nog fanns utrymme för värme, humor och kamratskap." - Svenska Dagbladet "Weintraubs bok visar hans färdigheter som forskare och skicklighet som berättare." - Publishers Weekly

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 Germany had one last great surprise attack still planned, leading to some of the most intense fighting in World War II: the Battle of the Bulge. After ten days of horrific weather conditions and warfare, General Patton famously asked God, "Sir, whose side are you on?" For the next four days, as the skies cleared, the Allies could fly again, the Nazis were contained, and the outcome of the war was ensured.

Renowned historian and author 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 war. Heweaves together the stories of ordinary soldiers and their generals to recreate this dramatic, crucial narrative of a miraculous shift of luck in the midst of the most significant war of the modern era.

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, hitting hard at FDR''s liberal domestic policies and the ongoing cost of World War II. Despite gravely deteriorating health, FDR and his feisty running mate, the unexpected Harry Truman, campaigned vigorously against young governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and old-line Ohio governor John Bricker. Roosevelt''s charm and wit, as well as the military successes in Europe and the Pacific, contributed to his sweeping electoral victory. But the hard-fought campaign would soon take its toll on America''s only four-term president.

Preeminent historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub recaptures FDR''s striking last campaign and the year''s momentous events, from the rainy city streets where Roosevelt, his legs paralyzed by polio since 1922, rode in an open car, to the battlefronts where the commander-in-chief''s forces were closing in on Hitler and Hirohito. Weintraub, as he has done in all his biographies, brings to life the man and his times, capturing those small but telling details that inform and delight.The result is unforgettable.

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 visibility during World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not his ambitions. While his stature was rising, his testy marriage to his cousin Eleanor was fraying amid scandal quietly covered up. Even polio a year later would not suppress the ever indomitable Roosevelt and his inevitable ascent.

Against the backdrop of a reluctant America''s entry into a world war and FDR''s hawkish build-up of a modern navy, Washington''s gossip-ridden society, and the nation''s surging economy, Weintraub summons up the early influences on the young and enterprising nephew of his predecessor, "Uncle Ted."

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 visibility during World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not his ambitions. While his stature was rising, his testy marriage to his cousin Eleanor was fraying amid scandal quietly covered up. Even polio a year later would not suppress the ever indomitable Roosevelt and his inevitable ascent.

Against the backdrop of a reluctant America''s entry into a world war and FDR''s hawkish build-up of a modern navy, Washington''s gossip-ridden society, and the nation''s surging economy, Weintraub summons up the early influences on the young and enterprising nephew of his predecessor, "Uncle Ted."

From an acclaimed historian comes the dramatic story of the Christmas escape of thousands of American troops overwhelmingly surrounded by the enemy in Korea''s harsh terrain.

Just before Thanksgiving in 1950, five months into the Korean War, General MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an "end-the-war-by-Christmas" offensive despite recent intervention by Mao''s Chinese, who would soon trap tens of thousands of US troops poised toward the Yalu River border. Led by marines, an overwhelmed Tenth Corps evacuated the frigid, mountainous Chosin Reservoir fastness and fought a swarming enemy and treacherous snow and ice to reach the coast. Weather, terrain, Chinese firepower, and a four-thousand-foot chasm made escape seem impossible in the face of a vanishing Christmas. But endurance and sacrifice prevailed, and the last troopships weighed anchor on Christmas Eve.

In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas, Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season.