Walter Lord: 32 books
The Way It Was
Walter Lord on His Life and Books
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2009
In 1926, Walter Lord, nine years old, persuaded his mother to cross the Atlantic aboard the Olympic. The choice was no accident; the Olympic was sister ship to the Titanic and already the doomed White Star liner sailed in and out of young Lord's imagination. The following year, he wrote and illustrated...
The World War II Collection
The Miracle of Dunkirk, Day of Infamy, and Incredible Victory
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Full-length accounts of three decisive WWII events—Pearl Harbor, Midway, and the evacuation of Dunkirk—from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to the beach at Dunkirk. Prime Minister...
Titanic
La vera storia
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Quello di Walter Lord è il resoconto più fedele e toccante del più grande disastro marittimo del Novecento. A Titanic. La vera storia fanno infatti riferimento tutte le ricostruzioni anche cinematografiche - dal film di Kenneth More Titanic, latitudine 41 nord del 1958, al colossal pluripremiato...
The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic
The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Three decades after his landmark work A Night to Remember, Walter Lord revisits the Titanic
Years after A Night to Remember stoked the fires of public interest in the doomed RMS Titanic, the clamor for details about April 14, 1912, has not abated. As die-hard professional and amateur historians—“rivet...
The Good Years
From 1900 to the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
This New York Times bestseller by the author of A Night to Remember explores America in the years between the Gilded Age and the beginning of the Great War.
Though remarkable in their own right, the first fifteen years of the 1900s had the misfortune of being sandwiched between—and overshadowed...
Day of Infamy
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Lord’s classic, bestselling account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Day of Infamy began as a quiet morning on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. But as Japan’s deadly torpedoes suddenly rained down on the Pacific fleet, soldiers, generals, and civilians alike felt shock, then fear,...
by Walter Lord
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Lord’s history of the 1962 Ole Miss riots, sparked by one man’s heroic stance against segregation in the American South
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On September 30, 1962, James H. Meredith matriculated at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. An air force veteran with sixty hours of transfer credits,...
Lonely Vigil
Coastwatchers of the Solomons
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
From the bestselling author of Day of Infamy: In the bloodiest island combat of WWII, one group of men kept watch from behind Japanese lines.
The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal,...
A Time to Stand
The Epic of the Alamo
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna’s troops at the Battle of the Alamo.
Looking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering in the intense sun of a February heat wave, Colonel William...
Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War II
On the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would...
The Complete Titanic Chronicles
A Night to Remember and The Night Lives On
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The complete and definitive New York Times–bestselling chronicle of the Titanic including survivors’ stories and extensive research separating fact from myth.
In just two hours and forty minutes, 1,500 souls were lost at sea when the RMS Titanic succumbed to the icy waters of the North...
The Dawn's Early Light
The War of 1812 and the Battle That Inspired Francis Scott Key to Write "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
A riveting account of America’s second war with England, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the great powers of Western Europe treated the United States like a disobedient child. Great Britain blocked American...
A Night to Remember
The Sinking of the Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
#1 New York Times Bestseller: The definitive book on the sinking of the Titanic, based on interviews with survivors, by the author of The Miracle of Dunkirk.
At first, no one but the lookout recognized the sound. Passengers described it as the impact of a heavy wave, a scraping noise, or the...
World in Crisis
Classic Accounts of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Three New York Times–bestselling World War II histories, including the true story of the miraculous evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk.
The monumental scope and breathtaking heroism of World War II are brought to vivid life in three riveting accounts that span the...