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Steven Pressfield • The Warrior Ethos
“Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty,” Henry Demarest Lloyd
Doris Kearns Goodwin • The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
modus vivendi
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
The message of fear was all that remained.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
bucolic.
Kai Bird • American Prometheus
Third, the allied forces would assume direction of the war and not operate under French command. Finally, and most significantly, the United States would not send ground forces into combat without specific congressional authorization.15 There was little likelihood that any of these, let alone all four, would occur.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
But “an initial American landing without British ground forces offers a real chance that there would be no French resistance or only a token resistance.”55 If the United States was to provide most of the troops for the invasion of North Africa, it was logical that the operation should be commanded by an American. Eisenhower was in London, he was ma
... See moreJean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.