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(0)Stanley Weintraub
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A top historian offers a compelling history of perhaps the most remarkable holiday season in 20th-century history--December 1941--a Christmas season that played out in the shadows of the Pearl Harbor attack and the start of America's involvement in World War II. 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...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an acclaimed historian, 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xv, 201 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
General Sherman's Christmas opens on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24, 1864, one month before Christmas. Sherman was relentlessly pushing his troops across Georgia, reaching Savannah days before Christmas. His methodical encroachment of the city from all sides eventually convinced Confederate general W. J. Hardee to slip away in darkness across an improvised causeway toward South Carolina to the north. In freezing rain and terrifying fog, soldiers...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This 'moving story of horror taking a holiday" (People) vividly recounts one of history's most powerful Christmas stories. Using the stories of the men who were there, Weintraub illuminates this extraordinary moment in time.