Books written by Jonathan W. Jordan
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American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II
2O 2I 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3o 31 32 33 34 35 37 Blum 342 (“castrate”), 344 (“wards”); FDR, remarks, 8/23/44, FDR-PP, 1944, 233 (“prisoners"). Beschloss 95–96. HLS, 8/21/44, 8/23/44. HLS, “Memorandum of Problems of Germany,” 8/25/44; ...
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American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II
Hassett, 4/12/45: “Last Words: “I Have a Terrific Headache,” NYT, 4/13/45; Suckley, 4/12/45; Photograph, 4/45, FDRL (Pare Lorentz Papers, box 57); "L.I. Artist Tells of Roosevelt's Last Hour,” (Long Island) Newsday, 4/16/45.
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American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II
William Smedberg to Thomas Buell, 2/10/75, KP (box 2) (“lone wolf”); J. R. Topper to Thomas Buell, 9/27/74, KP (box 2); Kenneth Knowles to Thomas Buell, 9/22/74, KP (box 2) (“armor-plated steel”). William Smedberg to Thomas Buell, ...
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The War Queens: Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield
14.30; Aldhouse-Green 177–79, and Fraser 61-62. The Celts, Iceni, and their customs are documented in Strabo, Geographica, 246–47, 257; Caesar, De Bello Gallico, 4:33, 5:21 (“great Iceni”), 6:16; Aldhouse-Green 22–28, 71, 87, 173–77; ...
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Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West
**WINNER OF THE 2007 UNITED STATES MARITIME LITERATURE AWARD** In the 1830s, Mexico endured a tragic era of internal political instability. Meanwhile, bold American frontiersmen sought their fortunes beyond the...
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Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The intimate true story of three of the greatest American generals of World War II, and how their intense blend of comradery and competition spurred Allied forces to victory. “One of the great stories of the ...
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Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
But to suspect bad news was one thing ; to hear it from the mouth of a four - star admiral was another.27 It was a blue season for Ike Eisenhower , and he bitterly told his close friends that if he were sent back to Washington , “ I'll ...
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The War Queens: Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield
Father-daughter duo Jonathan and Emily Jordan uncover the ingenious wartime tactics of some of history's most powerful female leaders across millennia and continents, from the stifling battlefields of ancient Egypt to the frigid waters off ...