books by William Manchester     books:       The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War17 reviews William Manchester Back Bay Books, 2003 The Family That Armed Germany William Manchester squeezes yet another masterpiece into just under a thousand pages (not counting index!) For four centuries one name was associated with the armaments that were utilized in four major wars, creating the richest family in Europe; Krupp. Each leader of the dynasty had peculiar quirks that Manchester delights over, some were involved in sex scandals, and another ran his day to ...             The Death of a President: November 20-November 2516 reviews William Raymond Manchester BBS Publishing Corporation, 1996 THE FIRST AND THE LAST WORD On my seventh birthday, November 22, 1963, I returned home from school and was told that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated earlier in the day in Dallas, Texas. Even for a seven-year-old schoolboy the gravity of event was striking. For the next forty years, because of my own curiosity and because the event was continually thrust upon me by the media, I studied the sad event from ...             Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-194040 reviews William Manchester Blackstone Audiobooks, 1990 Churchill's true finest hour; this book will give you a better appreciation of Winston's greatness, courage, and foresight For some inexplicable reason, the second (and unfortunately final) volume of William Manchester's biography sat on my shelf unread for some time. I think because the book spans the years 1932 to 1940 -- and does not cover most of World War II -- I skipped the book over, figuring that Winston's best and most important years were his war years. After reading "Alone", I realized immediately how ...             My Early Life: 1874-190420 reviews Winston Churchill Scribner, 1996 Churchill at his most human This 372 page long book would be good, but no more, if it wasn't for the first 40-or-so pages, which are a gem. The book covers the first 30 years of Churchill's life and the first forty pages cover his childhood. Although Churchill had a miserable childhood - his father was distant, his mother more interested in lovers than in her son, and he was bullied at boarding school - Churchill narrates ...             Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill Vol 1 Part II: Visions of Glory 1874-193239 reviews William Manchester Blackstone Audiobooks, 1990 As Good as Biography Gets This fully lives up to its reputation as perhaps the best biography ever written. Manchester does a peerless, masterful job filling in the background colors and giving a complete picture of Churchill from a young man into his early fifties. As Manchester emphasizes, this background was essentially the decline and fall of the British Empire and the aristocracy who ran it. Manchester's main point, ...             The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory30 reviews William Manchester Little, Brown and Company, 1983 Gripping account of a misunderstood man-- you should read this! This is a truly *massive* work, equal parts scholarship and artistry. Though volume one runs close to a thousand pages (counting notes, sources, etc.), I finished reading it this afternoon after an off-and-on reading of about two weeks, and it just flew by. Manchester crafted this with such precision care that I fell into the narrative from page one. The greatest strength of the book itself-- ...             American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 19643 reviews William Manchester Back Bay Books, 2008 Superb Biography This book is a classic. Even the title page is brilliant. MacArthur is The American Caesar, imperious and outstanding, always posturing and yet commanding a fanatical following. A complex man, his brilliance is constantly dogged by his insecurities, his successes balanced by his failures and so on. truly the modern Prometheus! He completely misread the Japanese intentions to bomb the ...             The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-194034 reviews William Manchester Little, Brown and Company, 1988 Brilliantly Written European History - 1932 to 1940 The Last Lion, Alone covers the history of Europe from the time Hitler first came to power in Germany to the time that Hitler invaded the Low Countries and World War II began. During this period Churchill, who continually fought against the appeasement policies of Chamberlain, rose from Back Bench irrelevance to become Brittan's Prime Minister. The history of this period is a gripping saga ...             The Arms of Krupp15 reviews William Manchester Bantam, 1983 Wonderful History Of Germany's Foremost Arms Maker "The Arms Of Krupp" is the incredible biography of a powerful and incredibly rich and powerful family that was central in the advent and progress of European history for the more than four hundred years they presided as an almost imperial force within the boundaries of what is present-ay Germany. Certainly no other non-royal dynasty engenders such controversy and hotly expressed differences in ...             The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-197237 reviews William Manchester Little Brown & Co (T), 1974 US History as Historical Epic in Magisterial Manchester Work William Manchester bookends this sprawling, epic US history with two protests in the heart of Washington. He opens in 1930 at the rise of the Great Depression, with veterans across from the White House coldly shunned by President Herbert Hoover when asking for advance relief from the Great Depression, then brutally attacked by troops and national guardsmen led by Douglas MacArthur. He concludes ...             Controversy and other essays in journalism, 1950-19751 review William Raymond Manchester Little, Brown, 1976 Obituary writer The author's death gives rise to another look at his collection of essays. The late William Manchester wrote history interestingly. He wrote the longest Presidential obituary in history. Jacqueline Kennedy preferred that Manchester write the history of her husband. At the time William Manchester was working on the Krupp project. Surrogates of the family read the manuscript when completed. ...             The Arms Of Krupp 1587-1968 Part 2 Of 21 review William Manchester Books on Tape, Inc., 1984 This tape is well worth the price I listen to tapes on my daily commute. This was just the next on the list. It turned out to be an eye opener. This is the story of the Krupp family and dealings between 1587 and 1968. So you see it in so another war book but a struggle in economics. From the dust cover flap: "When Germany's ruling class buried the last of the Krupps in the rain on August 3, 1967 they witnessed the end of a ...             The Arms Of Krupp 1587-1968 Part 1 Of 22 reviews William Manchester Books on Tape, Inc., 1984 Arms of Krupp This book is a history of not only only family, but a nation. It gave me a different view to the industrial rise of Germany. The flow and pace of the book had a beat for me. I read the book on a fishing trip and I enjoyed the book almost as much as the fish.             The Caged Lion2 reviews William Manchester, W. Manchester Michael Joseph Ltd, 1997 A brilliant book ...as is the second volume "Alone". How can anyone allow these books to be out of print? Manchester captures the sense and spirit of a bygone era better than any other historian I've ever read, with the possible exception of Barbara Tuchmann - and even then I'd say he's her equal. This volume speaks volumes about Winston Churchill and how he came to be what he was.             American Caesar53 reviews William Raymond Manchester Dell ;, 1979 Unflinching look at our greatest soldier William Manchester mentioned in the acknowledgements that Jean MacArthur was a contributor, but did not see the manuscript before publication. There was a good reason for this: he didn't want people to think she agreed with his criticisms of General MacArthur, her husband. The book, as a matter of fact, was equally unflinching in its criticisms of the great general as it was in its praise of his ...             The Death of a President November 19631 review William Raymond Manchester Harper & Row, 1967 One of the classics about the assasination of JFK Written at the family's request between 1964-68, this is one of the most detailed accounts of the JFK case, Although embracing the official perspective - L.H. Oswald the lone killer / no conspiracy - the book is a detailed story of the last days of President Kennedy's life and the next days until the funeral, the deeds of lots of White House staff, the president's family, Dallas people and the ...             Glory and the Dream2 reviews William Manchester Bantam Books, 1983 The finest history of our age This is bar none the finest history of our era ever written. This is Manchester's gift to the generations. A thousand years from now this will be read with the same reverence as Herodotus.             Goodbye Darkness75 reviews William Manchester Random House Value Publishing, 1988 Amazing and deeply touching memoir After thirty years, and more than sixty years after the event, Manchester's memoir is to this reader deeply affecting and brings home World War II with shocking closeness. As a child of ten, I remember being thrilled by the descriptions of Okinawa as being the ultimate in island battles; it was soon eclipsed, however, by the news of Hiroshima and the rapid collapse of the Japanese. The author's ...             The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill - Alone1 review William Manchester Books on Tape, Inc., 1989 This masterwork is both a personal biography & history at the same time. Churchill was already regarded as one of the greatest men of his time. This was due in no small part to his great sucess as a writer. Yet he was out of step, the times being what they were: a nation being led by craven, small brained men concerned only with the bottom line. I found myself talking back to the tape (in essence, talking to myself) at the fools running H.M.G. & the ...             American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-196413 reviews William Raymond Manchester Well Researched & Written This is perhaps the best biography of an American ever written. Manchester juxtaposes the good MacArthur (the military genius and patriotic family man) with the bad MacArthur (the megalomaniacal general whose lapse led to his entire air force being destoryed on the ground at Leyte; not even his wife called him "Douglas"). 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