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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of June 11, 1950

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THE GRAND ALLIANCE
Winston S. Churchill
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THE GRAND ALLIANCE

by Winston S. Churchill · Houghton Mifflin

5 wks on list

Dealing with war on a giant scale, THE GRAND ALLIANCE focuses on events as Britain, after fighting a desperate battle alone, was joined in the struggle against the enemy by Soviet Russia and the United Sates. Hitler's invasion of Russia brought to an end a period of almost exactly a year during which Britain and her Empire had stood alone. Six months later, the United States, attacked by Japan, joined the war and the Grand Alliance was born. It was a momentous turn in the course of the war and Sir Winston Churchill noted, 'United we could subdue everybody else in the world. Many disasters, immeasurable cost and tribulation lay ahead, but there was no more doubt about the end.'

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THE ART OF REAL HAPPINESS
Norman Vincent Peale and Smiley Blanton

THE ART OF REAL HAPPINESS

by Norman Vincent Peale and Smiley Blanton · Prentice-Hall

11 wks on list

Based on case histories of the author and the discussions on love, hate, peace of mind, stress, aging, bereavement, and other hopes of renewal.

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OF MEN AND MOUNTAINS
William O. Douglas
Cover of OF MEN AND MOUNTAINS

OF MEN AND MOUNTAINS

by William O. Douglas · Harper and Brothers

3 wks on list

The author, Supreme Court Justice, William Douglas, recounts his adventures in the Cascade Mountains.

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WAR OR PEACE
John Foster Dulles

WAR OR PEACE

by John Foster Dulles · Macmillan

5 wks on list

Dulles, a prominent American lawyer, argues that the chances of preserving world peace will be enhanced by pursuing a general policy of live-and-let-live as far as ideologies are concerned, and by diminishing the economic and political isolation of each nation. He proposes that the "status quo" Powers, by the process of "peaceful change," meet the legitimate demands of the so-called "have-nots" in order to avoid compelling the latter to resort to war to gain their ends.--Provided by Robert Gale Woolbert, review at foreignaffairs.com.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.