Wyniki wyszukiwania:

A WORLD AT WAR . . .

A lonely sailor without a sawbuck to spare. A gorgeous socialite on the home front. Letters soaked in longing. Secrets taken to the grave. Easy births. Hard deaths. And dogs —dogs aplenty.

They say love conquers all, but will bonds forged by Lt. N. Robert Underhill and Miss Merrilee Meier during World War II survive the peaks and valleys of peacetime?

Across their 58-year-marriage, Bob and Merrilee confront holiday fiascoes and funeral foul-ups, windless regattas and catastrophic tornadoes, a medical crisis and a financial...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman are two men whose backgrounds were very dissimilar but whose achievements proved to be roughly comparable--both became President of the United States. It is, for example, ironic that the wealthy Roosevelt is best known for his social programs and that Truman, who came from modest circumstances in the Middle West, achieved his greatest success in foreign affairs. This study demonstrates, with some flair, the variety and the breadth of the American experience and provides, in part, a credible basis for the existence of an American Dream.

A university campus is ordinarily sedate except for occasional student rebellions or athletic rivalries. One state school’s calm, however, was broken by the unexpected death of its president and then murder of two prominent campus figures within the same week. The first victim, the alluring Coordinator for Student Activities, was strangled, and within days the leader of student government was killed by gunshot.

Ron Hedrick, an English professor, is fishing with a buddy, Sheriff Dusty Rhoads, when the body of the first victim is dragged from a nearby lake. Hedrick learns further...

America entered WWII with minimal air power: few fighter planes and less than three dozen four-engine bombers. Yet the nation had unmatchable advantages with its enormous industrial capacity, men and women ready to meet every need, and scientists at work on atomic theories. Armed forces swelled, the most remarkable growth being in the Army Air Corps.

Allied strategists adopted a policy of winning the war in Europe before launching an all-out offensive against Japan. Heroic U.S. marine and navy fighters held Nipponese forces at bay until the beginning of 1945. By then, island after...