Sökresultat för: Joseph E. Persico
Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918: World War I and Its Violent Climax (Häftad)
avJoseph E. Persico
ISBN: 9780375760457 - UTGIVEN: 2005-10November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already be[...]
Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II (Häftad)
avJoseph E. Persico
ISBN: 9780812974973 - UTGIVEN: 2014-03All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In "Roosevelt's Centurions, "distinguished historian Joseph E. Persico reveals how, during World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the levers of wartime power like no president since Abraham Lincoln during th[...]
