This biography of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, based on his private papers, reveals his strategies, complex relationships with military leaders and details about his personal life, and provides accounts of him as a soldier

Monty: The Making of a General : 1887-1942

HAMILTON, Nigel

Biographies & Memoirs

McGraw=Hill

Traces the career of the British Field Marshal from his decisive victory at El Alamein to the Battle of Normandy and describes his relationships with other Allied military leaders

Master of the Battlefield: Monty's War Years 1942-1944

Details the last thirty-two years of Monty's life, from the Normandy invasion and the end of World War II to his death

Monty: Final Years of the Field-Marshal, 1944-1976

Eminent biographer Nigel Hamilton offers a group biography of the twelve caesars of our time: the American Presidents from F.D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars became a classic of classical times: a virtuoso literary portrait gallery, remarkable not only for its frank dissections of Rome's great emperors, but also because the twelve men were the embodiment -- both good and bad -- of Rome's greatest century. In view of the country's rise to superpower status, the twentieth century has been called 'the American Century', and award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton now gives us the lives of the twelve men who presided over America's imperial fortunes -- the good, the bad and the truly awful. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. How did these American Caesars reach the White House? What were the challenges they faced when they got there and how did they meet them? And who were these men in their private lives? Nigel Hamilton's short, candid, critical portraits of the presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush are compulsively readable. Packed with unforgettable characters as well as stories, lessons and revelations, American Caesars is essential reading for our times: a vivid portrait of the United States over the past six decades to rival Suetonius' account of classical Rome. Twelve major biographies of influential presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson; Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; George H.W. Bush; Bill Clinton; George W. Bush.
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American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents - from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush

History

Americas

Vintage Books

Encompassess the early years of Kennedy's career, his youth and  Harvard education, the story of PT-109, his affair with a suspected  Nazi spy, and more. Book available.

JFK : Reckless Youth

Leaders & Notable People

Random House of Canada, Limited

Physical description; xix, 871p,[32]p of plates : ill, maps,facsims,plans,ports ; 24cm. Notes; Bibliography: p849-854. - Includes index. Subject; Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery Viscount 1887-1976.

MONTY - The Making of a General 1887 - 1942

On September 1 1944 Monty was promoted to the rank of Field-Marshal. He had won the greatest Allied victory in Normandy, and the German armies were in belter-shelter retreat. Monty: The Field Marshall, 1944-76 traces Monty's extraordinary career in the last nine months of World War II.

Monty: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976

David&Charles

Studies the political and artistic rivalry and emotional closeness of Thomas and Heinrich Mann, analyzing the cultural, social, and familial milieu in which the brothers developed and worked

Brothers Mann: The Lives of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1871-1950 and 1875-1955 (Biography)

Yale University Press

American Caesars takes a fresh look at the lives and careers of the twelve leaders of the American empire since World War II, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. President by president, the noted biographer Nigel Hamilton strips away myths and wishful thinking to record our most recent presidents as they really were: leaders guiding the fortunes of an unruly empire, on a world stage. Hamilton relates and examines the presidents’ unique characters, their paths to Pennsylvania Avenue, their effectiveness as global leaders, and their lessons in governance, both good and bad. With uncompromising candor he looks at how these powerful men responded to the challenges that defined their presidencies—FDR’s role as a war leader, Harry Truman’s decision to mount a Berlin Airlift rather than pursue military confrontation with the Soviets, Lyndon Johnson’s undertaking of controversial Civil Rights legislation and his disastrous war in Vietnam, Jimmy Carter’s handling of the Iran hostage crisis, George H. W. Bush’s effectiveness in guiding the world during the collapse of the Soviet Union, and his son’s fateful invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as other salient episodes in modern American history. In the Suetonian manner, Hamilton also looks at the presidents’ private lives—some noble, some flawed, some deeply moving.

American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush

Historical

A provocative portrait of U.S. presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush American Caesars takes a fresh look at the lives and careers of the twelve leaders of the American empire since World War II, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. President by president, the noted biographer Nigel Hamilton strips away myths and wishful thinking to record our most recent presidents as they really were: leaders guiding the fortunes of an unruly empire, on a world stage. Hamilton relates and examines the presidents’ unique characters, their paths to Pennsylvania Avenue, their effectiveness as global leaders, and their lessons in governance, both good and bad. With uncompromising candor he looks at how these powerful men responded to the challenges that defined their presidencies—FDR’s role as a war leader, Harry Truman’s decision to mount a Berlin Airlift rather than pursue military confrontation with the Soviets, Lyndon Johnson’s undertaking of controversial Civil Rights legislation and his disastrous war in Vietnam, Jimmy Carter’s handling of the Iran hostage crisis, George H. W. Bush’s effectiveness in guiding the world during the collapse of the Soviet Union, and his son’s fateful invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as other salient episodes in modern American history. In the Suetonian manner, Hamilton also looks at the presidents’ private lives—some noble, some flawed, some deeply moving.

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Monty: The Making of a General : 1887-1942

Master of the Battlefield: Monty's War Years 1942-1944

Monty: Final Years of the Field-Marshal, 1944-1976

American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents - from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush

JFK : Reckless Youth

MONTY - The Making of a General 1887 - 1942

Monty: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976

Brothers Mann: The Lives of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1871-1950 and 1875-1955 (Biography)

American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush

American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush