William Manchester: 14 books
One Brief Shining Moment
Remembering Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A New York Times–bestselling historian looks back on the Camelot of the early 1960s, and “make[s] the Kennedy days look glamorous again” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
In his renowned biographies Portrait of a President and The Death of a President, William Manchester intimately and...
The Death of a President
November 20-November 25, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
William Manchester's epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination--now restored to print in a new paperback edition.
As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family,...
The Last Lion: Volume 2
Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The second volume of William Manchester's masterful account of Winston Churchill's life.
Alone is the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this volume, we witness the war within, before the colossal war to come. During this period,...
Goodbye, Darkness
A Memoir of the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places...
The Last Lion
Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The long-awaited final volume of William Manchester's legendary biography of Winston Churchill.
Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany....
by William Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
An up-close look at John F. Kennedy by one of his closest confidants, a New York Times–bestselling biographer.
Written by a prize-winning historian and biographer of such giants as Winston S. Churchill and Douglas MacArthur, this intimately detailed account provides a rare personal glimpse...
The Last Lion: Volume 1
Winston Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874 - 1932
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The first volume in William Manchester's masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill's life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill's life--the years that mold him into the man who will become one of the most influential politicians of the twentieth...
by William Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A New York Times–bestselling historian’s in-depth portrait of life in America, from the Depression era to the early 1970s: “Magnificent” (The New York Times).
Award-winning historian and biographer William Manchester, author of The Last Lion, an epic three-volume biography of Winston Churchill,...
Controversy
And Other Essays in Journalism, 1950–1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
An in-depth journey through America and the world in the postwar years, from a New York Times–bestselling historian and biographer.
Among his many accomplishments, William Manchester was especially known for his book The Death of a President, the award-winning account of the assassination of...
The Last Lion Box Set
Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning...
by William Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
“Written with verve, intellectual sophistication, and a prickly wit worthy of its eminent subject. . . . A first-class piece of literate entertainment” (The New Yorker).
Before he went on to become a celebrated biographer and historian, renowned for such works as A World Lit Only by Fire,...
A World Lit Only by Fire
The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.
American Caesar
Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Inspiring, outrageous... A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank of General of the United States Army. He served in World Wars I, II, and the Korean War, and is famous for stating that "in war, there is no substitute for victory." AMERICAN...
The Arms of Krupp
The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The Krupp family were the premier German arms manufacturers from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II, producing artillery pieces and submarines that set the standard for effectiveness. This book relates the history of this influential company.