Books written by William Manchester
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
Brian Gardner, Churchill in Power: As Seen by His Contemporaries (Boston, 1970), 150. David Stafford, Churchill and Secret Service (London, 2000), 280. Time, 3/2/42, 27 (“Christ and Carrots” Cripps); Lochner, Goebbels Diaries, 137.
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One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy
Connally, Jr., Michael Cook, C. Douglas Dillon, Ralph Dungan, Henry H. “Joe” Fowler, John Kenneth Galbraith, Mary Gallagher, Barbara Gamarekian, Richard N. Goodwin, Jim Greenfield, Edwin O. Guthman, Milton Gwirtzman, Averell Harriman, ...
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The Glory and the Dream
Upon landing—Syngman Rhee met him at the airstrip—MacArthur said, “Let's go to the front and look at the troops. ... General J. Lawton Collins, in MacArthur's old role as the Army's chief of staff, answered that before taking such a ...
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One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy
Enriched with anecdotes, this portrait of John Kennedy explores his relationships with his father, brother Robert, family, friends, and confidants and discusses his use of an old political machine in an attempt to create a new vision of ...
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The glory the dream: a narrative history of America : 1932-1972
Traces the popular and political milestones and manifestations of the American pursuit of happiness from the Depression to the fall of the Nixon administration
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Controversy: And Other Essays in Journalism, 1950–1975
It was Evan. He and Cass were at the airport hotel. One of their 707s engines had broken down in Munich; there wouldn't be another plane till morning. While Cass dozed, Evan had ... “Cass associates himself with every word I'm saying.
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The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963
William Manchester's "authoritative and powerful" account (Time) of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
Among those who followed were Captain Hugh J. Casey, an engineer, and Major William F. Marquat, an antiaircraft officer, ... man around MacArthur: Eisenhower's replacement as chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Richard K. Sutherland.
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age
The most imaginative cluster of fables appeared in print the year after the Piper's mass murders, when William Caxton published Sir Thomas Malory's Le morte d' Arthur. Later, bowdlerized versions of this great work have obscured the ...
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
General Henry Wilson sent word of their destination to Brigadier General Hubert Gough, commander of the Curragh garrison. Gough resigned his commission, whereupon fifty-seven of his seventy officers resigned, whereupon Sir John French, ...
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Portrait of a President
This edition includes a new introduction and epilogue written by Manchester in the aftermath of November 1963, adding to the mythos by documenting not just how President Kennedy lived, but also the legacy he left behind.
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The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963
Now, as then, they went through the correct surgical motions, but in Jenkins' words, “The trauma which patient Oswald had sustained was too great for resuscitation.” Two days and seven minutes after the President had been pronounced ...
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The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War
They were ushered into the office of a Brigadier Noel. “No one said Guten Tag,” one of the four later said wryly. The atmosphere was arctic; “Das Schwert des Siegers lag auf dem Tisch,” another German said afterward—“The conqueror's ...
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The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965
George F. Kennan, Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin (Boston, 1960), 349. 363. GILBERT 7, 217. 364. GILBERT 7, 255; Martin Gilbert, ... John Keegan, The Second World War (London, 1989), 297, 312, 317; GILBERT 7, 265. 4.
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The Last Lion: Volume 1: Winston Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874 - 1932
Thompson, Walter Henry. Assignment: Churchill. New York, 1955. ... Mayer, Arno J. “The Power Politician and Counterrevolutionary,” in The Critical Spirit, edited by Kurt H. Wolff and Barrington Moore, Jr. Boston, 1967.
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Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
... Martin Clemens, Andrew W. Coffey, Jeremiah Collins, John P. Condon, Paul Cox, Elfriede Craddock, Jerry Crad-dock, ... R. E. Duca, Rodolfo Dula, Jim Earl, Florence Fenton, Y. Fujumura, Robert B. Fowler, Jay Gildner, John R. Griffith ...
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The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
The noted biographer-historian continues his life of Winston Churchill, focusing here on the years of Churchill's political exile and his increasingly forceful opposition to Hitler's Germany.
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
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 Nazi Germany.
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The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history, The Glory and the Dream relives the epic, significant, or just memorable events that befell the generation of Americans whose lives pivoted between the America before and the ...
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One Brief Shining Moment
One Brief Shining Moment