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Majestic" - The Washington Post"Breathtaking" - The Boston Globe

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In Two Volumes.

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For the first time in trade paperback, the book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable account of World War II in the Pacific, of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and, most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.Back Bay takes pride in making William Manchester's intense, stirring, and impass...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Court and Society From Elizabeth to Anne, Vol. 1 of 2Hese chapters on the Court and Society from Elizabeth and Anne are based upon papers, of which nearly all the originals are at Kimbolton. A few are in the Record Office: one very curious paper is in the Private Cabinet of the Empress Eugenie, and a very important series are at Simancas. These papers are described in the text.It was at first intended to offer but a slight sketch ...

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In handsomely crafted prose and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance, which spawned some of history's most spectacular poets, philosophers, and painters-and villains.

Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century. His great oratory and leadership during World War II were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our time.

This fine biography of H. L. Mencken tells of how he rose to his unique position as comic genius and preeminent critic of American culture. Mencken sounded a loud, jarring note to a world governed by conformity.

In the second of his three-volume biography, Manchester challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, Churchill stood almost alone against Nazi aggression and the British and French pusillanimous policy of appeasement.

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This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti--everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print. Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history, The Glory and the Dreamrelives the epic, significant, or just mem...

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