Andrew Tully
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
At 9:45 p.m. on August 24, 1814, the British set fire to the White House and, within an hour, the Capitol had been gutted. How could this happen? The war was not widely supported and the defense of Washington had been placed in the hands of two inept and ill-appointed leaders―Secretary of War Armstrong and Brigadier General Winder―whose "thimble headed stupidity" meant that the arriving British troops met little resistance. There were heroes in...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, Andrew Tully was one of three Americans allowed to enter Berlin as a guest of a Russian artillery battalion commander. He spent the next seventeen years gathering eyewitness accounts, collecting war diaries and letters, and reading over one hundred books in order to write this gripping and comprehensive account about the fall of Berlin. Originally published in the U.S. in 1963, Berlin: Story of a Battle has also been translated...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Published twenty-six years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a reorganization of the judiciary that included his controversial "court-packing" plan, Supreme Court presents a fictionalized account of a similar plan which is never actualized. Francis Copley Dalton, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is a friend of the President and becomes entangled in his plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Although grateful for previous...
