Stanley Weintraub (1929–2019)
Autor/a de Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
Sobre l'autor
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'n més 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'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Simon & Schuster
Obres de Stanley Weintraub
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century (2007) 133 exemplars
The London Yankees: Portraits of American writers and artists in England, 1894-1914 (1979) 27 exemplars
A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War (2014) 26 exemplars
Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw?: Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays (Florida Bernard Shaw) (2011) 5 exemplars
Dictionary Of Literary Biography, Volume 13: British Dramatists Since World War II, Part Two: M-Z (1983) 3 exemplars
Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court: American Encounters with Victoria and Albert (2011) 2 exemplars
The Mind and the Market 2 exemplars
Dictionary Of Literary Biography, Volume 13: British Dramatists Since World War II, Part One: A-L 1 exemplars
Faculty Lecture 3: The Craft of Biography 1 exemplars
Rare Stanley Weintraub / Whistler A Biography 1974 - New York: Weybright and Talley, 1974 1 exemplars
Žízeň po životě 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Col·laborador — 429 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1995 (1995) — Author "The Three-Week War" — 22 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1998 (1998) — Author "The Kwai That Never Was" — 13 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1993 (1992) — Author "The Christmas Truce" — 13 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2000 (1999) — Author "Marshall & MacArthur: The Tortoise & the Hare" — 9 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1995 (1994) — Author "The Bubble-Gum Wars" — 9 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2008 (2008) — Author "Ask MHQ" — 8 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2007 (2006) — Author "Patton's Last Christmas" — 6 exemplars
The Playwright and the Pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris. A Correspondence (1983) — Editor — 4 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2010 (2010) — Author "1864: McClellan vs. Lincoln", algunes edicions — 3 exemplars
English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, volume 57, no. 1 — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
English Literature in Transition, 1880- 1920, Vol. 59, no. 2 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1929-04-17
- Data de defunció
- 2019-07-28
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Newark, Delaware, USA - Educació
- Temple University
Pennsylvania State University - Professions
- historian
biographer - Relacions
- Weintraub, Rodelle (wife)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 57
- També de
- 20
- Membres
- 3,425
- Popularitat
- #7,430
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 55
- ISBN
- 175
- Llengües
- 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.… (més)