by Whittaker Chambers · Random House
Whittaker Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies...penetrating and terrible insights into America in the early twentieth century. --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
by Catherine Marshall · McGraw-Hill
An instant bestseller in 1951, this is the compelling story of Peter Marshall, the Scottish immigrant who became chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
by Elizabeth Gray Vining · J. B. Lippincott Company
The record of the author's four years at the Imperial Court, where she helped to teach and guide the young Prince from a chubby child to a poised, attractive youth with a high sense of responsibility.
by James Thurber · Simon & Schuster
Stories about the author's "family, friends, teachers and colleagues in Columbus, Ohio."
by Anne Frank · Doubleday
Biografie van een jong meisje uit de oorlogsjaren.
by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer · Crown Publishers Inc
Commentary about various aspects of American society from a conservative point of view.
by Edward L. Beach · Henry Holt and Company
Welcomed as the first book about American submarines in World War II to be written by a man who actually fought in them, this compelling personal account of the war beneath the sea firmly established Edward L. Beach's reputation as a writer in the early 1950s. Given the survival rate of those in the silent service, it is a story many submariners did not live to tell. In fact, most of the crew of Beach's boat, the USS Trigger, were lost soon after he left for another assignment. A veteran of twelve war patrols, Beach authentically recaptures the moments of elation, desperation, and numbing fear that were part of the daily lives of these warriors as they hunted down the enemy in the Pacific. Beach helped sink the Trigger's first ships and survived more than his share of exploding depth charges from avenging warships. This book weaves the Trigger's story with the equally thrilling tales of other battle-hardened submarines and the brave men who fought in them against the Japanese. Readers share in the destruction of five destroyers in four days and join in the deadliest game of all -- stalking other submarines. They also come to understand the terror and uncertainty of being at the other end of the pursuit, and silently sweating out depth-charge poundings in a leaking boat. For an authentic account of what went on under the waves, this book remains one of the very best. Book jacket.
by Alistair Cooke · Alfred A. Knopf
A collection of essays written by a British journalist about his experiences and observations of Americans immediately post-World War II.
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