General Sherman’s Christmas: Savannah, 1864 by Stanley Weintraub Requirements: .ePUB reader, 3.0 MbOverview: Historian Stanley Weintraub, author of Silent Night, combines two winning topics—Christmas and the Civil War—in General Sherman’s Christmas, new from Smithsonian Books. Focusing on the holiday season of 1864, when General Sherman relentlessly pushed his troops across Georgia to capture Savannah, General […]
Pearl Harbor Christmas by Stanley WeintraubRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.0 MBOverview: 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 as usual, the reality of the just-declared war was on everybody’s mind. United States troops on Wake […]
Silent Night: The Remarkable 1914 Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub / Narrated by Edward HollandRequirements: .MP3 player, 158 mbOverview: In the beginning months of World War I, a very strange thing happened. After the fierce trench warfare of November and December, on Christmas Eve, 1914, the fighting spontaneously stopped. Men on both sides laid down […]
A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War by Stanley WeintraubRequirements: .ePUB reader, 10.8 MBOverview: The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by […]
A Writing Life : Revisiting the Past by Stanley WeintraubRequirements: .PDF reader, 81 MBOverview: A memoir by Stanley Weintraub in which he recalls his early childhood, his service in the Korean War, engaging behind-the-scenes stories of his many writings in history and literature, and the surprising array of prominent figures he met, from Ray Bradbury […]