Joseph E. Persico è stato uno storico distinto le cui opere si sono addentrate in momenti e figure cruciali del XX secolo. La sua scrittura è stata caratterizzata da una profonda ricerca d'archivio e da una dettagliata rappresentazione degli eventi. Persico ha frequentemente esplorato gli aspetti più oscuri dei conflitti e dell'intrigo politico, facendo luce su aspetti meno conosciuti delle lotte belliche e dei processi del dopoguerra. Le sue narrazioni sono lodate per la loro accuratezza e il loro stile avvincente, che trascina i lettori nel cuore degli accadimenti storici.
Colin Powell writes of his anxieties and difficulties as well as the triumphs that marked his rise to four-star US General, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mastermind of Desert Storm, and now the man many Americans would like to draft as President.
Profiles the life and career of Colin L. Powell.
Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax
The story of the day on which World War I, the war to end all wars, ended. Using military archives and public records, along with journals and diaries, the book will weave together the eleventh hour experiences of the famous, such as Lloyd George, President Woodrow Wilson, Field Marshall Haig and General Pershing. But more dominantly, it will deal with the ordinary men in the trenches, unsung and unremembered, the British Tommies, French Poilus, American Doughboys and German Feldgrau. Where, for example, was the Austrian corporal, Adolf Hitler, on that day? Four days before the War's end, with peace talks already underway, the beaten Germans propose an interim ceasefire to spare lives. However, the French Allied Commander, General Ferdinand Foch, refuses. Hostilities will not cease, Foch insists, before the appointed hour of the Armistice. Thus, even on the last day, the Allies are still launching full scale offenses and both sides bombard each other until the final minute of the agreed ceasefire, 11am, November 11, 1918. The last hours pulsate with tension as men in the trenches, airmen in the sky and sailors at sea hope to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in the War.