Best Selling Books by William Manchester

American ed. (1950) has title: Disturber of the peace. Includes bibliography.

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

Furiously paced novel about the struggle for power in a great American city.

An in-depth journey through America and the world in the postwar years, from a New York Times''bestselling historian and biographer. Among his many accomplishments, William Manchester was especially known for his book The Death of a President, the award-winning account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy that embroiled him in a lawsuit filed by Jackie Kennedy. The title essay in this collection recounts the experience of publishing that book, and of his battle with JFK''s widow. In addition, Controversy includes a wide range of journalistic pieces published in the period between World War II and Vietnam, covering events from the Bay of Pigs fiasco to Watergate and highlighting the insights and observations of a distinguished career that earned the author the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, among other honors. "A work of love, even passion ... Mr. Manchester''s final telling of the death of Kennedy is most moving." ''Gore Vidal.

Tobindsværket "Winston Spencer Churchill" skrevet af William Manchester blev udgivet 1983-1989 på M. Joseph''s forlag i London. Bd. 1 dækker tiden frem til begyndelsen af 1930''erne. Bd. 2. slutter med Churchill''s afgang som minister i 1956.

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.

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.

Details the life of a man whose ambitions and serious flaws made him one of the world''s most powerful leaders, placing Churchill''s career against the backdrop of the Second World War and the collapse of the British Empire.