Bøger af Robert H. Ferrell

The 35th Infantry Division was made up from the national guards of Missouri and Kansas. With little in the way of battlefield training, this division was committed to the Battle of Meuse-Argonne in 1918 and within five days had ceased to be an effective fighting force.

Chronicles the costliest battle in American military history--in terms of the totals of American troops involved, the number of casualties suffered, and the length of time it lasted. Masterfully portrays America's culminating campaign in World War I in all of its complexity while never forgetting the very human side of the people who planned and fought the battle.

The Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed on August 27, 1928, was an important landmark in the "peace fever" which swept the United States and Europe after World War I. Peace in Their Time is a highly readable account of the events leading up to the signing of the pact and their implications for American diplomacy.

Focusing on President Franklin D. Roosevelt's illness, this book looks at how he aimed to hide it. It then goes on to show how his illness effected his role as the President of the US, such as making an agreement with Winston Churchill that he failed to tell the State Department about.

When Grace Anna Goodhue wed Calvin Coolidge in 1905, she thought then that marriage ""has seldom united two people of more vastly different temperaments and tastes."" Warm to her husband's dour and taciturn, Grace was to be a contrast to Calvin for years to come. This work shows how their marriage ensured her husband's rise to high office.

This analysis of Coolidge's presidency seeks to show how he represented the essence of 1920s Republicanism. Examining his domestic and foreign policy, the author illuminates the pre-Depression administration and reveals a president who was dedicated to public service.

Perhaps the best known of all American five-star generals, Douglas MacArthur established his military reputation at the hill of Chatillon during the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne in World War I. This book reconstructs the movements of troops and the decisions of officers to show in detail how MacArthur's subordinates were the true heroes.

American Diplomacy: The Twentieth Century provides a vigorous, through narrative of American diplomatic history.

Harry Truman was born on May 8, 1884. At the age of sixty-one, Truman was sworn in as the thirty-third president of the United States. This volume covers: campaigns, elections, and the Pendergast connection, Senator Truman, particularly his chairmanship of the Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, FDR, and World War II.