Best Selling Books by William MANCHESTER

本书从1932年富兰克林、罗斯福总统上台前后一直到1972年的水门事件, 勾画了整整四十年间的美国历史.

Captures the past fifty years of the world in over three hundred photographs.

Vainqueur de la guerre du Pacifique puis artisan de la restructuration du Japon, militaire de carrière qui déclare faire partie du 1 % de la population qui déteste la guerre, le célèbre général américain demeure l''une des figures les plus fascinantes et les plus contradictoires de son époque. Ce gros bouquin aide à mieux percer à jour l''homme et la légende.

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 century. In this, the first volume, Manchester follows Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the re-militarization of Germany. Born of an American mother and the gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi''s quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain. Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930''s began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism--an evil the world had never before seen.

Da Idade Média à Era Moderna, mais de mil anos de história são investigados neste livro à luz dos fatos que moldaram a mentalidade do homem moderno. ''Fogo sobre a terra'' prova, mais uma vez, que a história não é uma seqüência de episódios sem relação. William Manchester escreveu uma narrativa palpitante, em que concatena o Cisma da Cristandade, a redescoberta dos valores da civilização clássica pelos humanistas, a perda do monopólio de ensino da Igreja, o abismo entre a razão e a fé, a expansão do comércio, a invenção da imprensa, a ameaça de Copérnico e a exploração das terras além da Europa, da qual a viagem de Fernão de Magalhães seria o ápice.

In the spring of 1944 the United States Marine Corps formed its last rifle regiment of World War II. They were the only regiment to have their own Japanese translator.