Stanley Weintraub (1929–2019)
Autore di Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
Sull'Autore
Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts & Humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He has written acclaimed works of military history on World Wars I & II. He lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. (Publisher Provided) Stanley Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on mostra altro April 17, 1929. He received a B.S. in education from West Chester State Teachers College in 1949 and a M. A. in English from Temple University. He served in the Army during the Korean Conflict where he was awarded the Bronze Star and the Korean Ribbon with five battle stars. Upon his return, he received a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University where he went on to teach until his retirement. He wrote over 40 books during his lifetime including Private and Public Shaw: A Dual Portrait of Lawrence of Arabia and George Bernard Shaw, Beardsley: A Biography, 11 Days in December, Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, MacArthur's War, Long Day's Journey into War, and A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War. He received the George Freedley Award in 1971 for Journey to Heartbreak: The Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw, 1914-1918 and the Freedom Foundation Award in 1980 for The London Yankees: Portraits of American Writers and Artists in London, 1894-1914. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Simon & Schuster
Opere di Stanley Weintraub
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century (2007) 133 copie
A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War (2014) 27 copie
Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw?: Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays (Florida Bernard Shaw) (2011) 5 copie
Dictionary Of Literary Biography, Volume 13: British Dramatists Since World War II, Part Two: M-Z (1983) 3 copie
The Mind and the Market 2 copie
Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court: American Encounters with Victoria and Albert (2011) 2 copie
Dictionary Of Literary Biography, Volume 13: British Dramatists Since World War II, Part One: A-L 1 copia
Žízeň po životě 1 copia
Opere correlate
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Collaboratore — 429 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1995 (1995) — Author "The Three-Week War" — 22 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1993 (1992) — Author "The Christmas Truce" — 14 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1998 (1998) — Author "The Kwai That Never Was" — 13 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2000 (1999) — Author "Marshall & MacArthur: The Tortoise & the Hare" — 10 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1995 (1994) — Author "The Bubble-Gum Wars" — 10 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2007 (2006) — Author "Patton's Last Christmas" — 7 copie
The Playwright and the Pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris. A Correspondence (1983) — A cura di — 4 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2010 (2010) — Author "1864: McClellan vs. Lincoln", alcune edizioni — 3 copie
English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, volume 57, no. 1 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
English Literature in Transition, 1880- 1920, Vol. 59, no. 2 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1929-04-17
- Data di morte
- 2019-07-28
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Newark, Delaware, USA - Istruzione
- Temple University
Pennsylvania State University - Attività lavorative
- historian
biographer - Relazioni
- Weintraub, Rodelle (wife)
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- Opere
- 56
- Opere correlate
- 20
- Utenti
- 3,410
- Popolarità
- #7,473
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 54
- ISBN
- 173
- Lingue
- 4
Researching and writing over 60 years after the end of World War II, Weintraub has had access to many facts unknown to most people at the time they occurred. Although I had read enough already about "Dugout Doug" MacArthur to consider him no hero, Weintraub's depiction of MacArthur's constant lies to his superiors about what was actually happening in the Philippines was shocking to read about -- the author has his doubts about Churchill as well.
In December 1941, my mother was a senior in high school; she would go on to work in the local shipyard after graduation. My father, who had joined the National Guard at 16, was in the Army, since FDR had Federalized the Guard in summer 1940. He was stationed on an island off Portland, Maine, as a coast artilleryman; he would later serve in the Pacific Theater. Reading this book helped me to understand a bit of what it was like for them to live through that time. Highly recommended.… (altro)