Donald L. Miller

A chronicle of the coming of the Industrial Age to one American city traces the explosive entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic growth that converted Chicago from a trading post to a modern industrial metropolis by the 1890s

The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

City of the Century

America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Masters of the Air

An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --

How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America

Supreme City

Chronicle of the U.S. 8th Air Force's daylight bombing campaign over Europe during World War II, from its genesis to the end of the war.

Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award “A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn’t do it. It took Grant’s army and Admiral David Porter’s navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this “elegant…enlightening…well-researched and well-told” (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city “with probing intelligence and irresistible passion” (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than twenty thousand became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg “Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history” (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant’s reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war—the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy.

Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

Vicksburg

A history recounting the events and experiences of the World War II bomber pilots of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, the armed forces group that conducted daytime bombing of Germany in advance of the Allied soldiers' arrival on the ground.

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Voor de fans van Band of Brothers en The Pacific! Ook de 10-delige tv-serie van Masters of the Air wordt door Tom Hanks en Steven Spielberg geproduceerd. Masters of the Air is het zeer persoonlijke verhaal van de Amerikaanse bomber boys (onder wie bekende filmsterren als Clark Gable en Jimmy Stewart), die lang voordat de geallieerde grondtroepen Duits grondgebied bereikten Hitler in de Tweede Wereldoorlog het vuur aan de schenen legden. Met de verhalende kracht van fictie neemt historicus Donald L. Miller de lezer op een enerverende vlucht door het door de gevechten vuurrode luchtruim boven Berlijn, Hannover en Dresden. De Achtste Luchtmacht (The Mighty Eighth) begon halverwege 1942 met een beperkte bombardementscampagne. Vechtend op bijna acht kilometer hoogte in ijzige omstandigheden, werd de bemanning van de bommenwerpers geconfronteerd met aanslagen op hun geestelijke en fysieke gesteldheid. Daarbij werden enorme verliezen geleden, maar uiteindelijk werd het luchtoffensief toch een succes, waardoor de Duitse oorlogsinspanning steeds meer ontwricht raakte. De Amerikaanse escortejagers maakten korte metten met de Luftwaffe. De prijs die hiervoor betaald moest worden was hoog: de Achtste Luchtmacht verloor tijdens de oorlog meer mensen dan het Amerikaanse Korps Mariniers. En degenen die het overleefden, gingen gebukt onder een enorme psychische druk ten gevolge van het vliegen van operaties die veel weg hadden van zelfmoordmissies. Masters of the Air is gebaseerd op recente interviews, ooggetuigenverslagen, en onder andere Amerikaans, Brits en Duits archiefmateriaal. Donald L. Miller heeft het tot een bijzonder meeslepende en levensechte getuigenis van s werelds eerste en enige luchtoorlog gemaakt, die evenals eerder Band of Brothers tot serie gemaakt wordt door Steven Spielberg en Tom Hanks. `Het is onmogelijk niet meegezogen te worden door Millers passie voor het onderwerp en zijn grootse prestatie. The Daily Telegraph

de Amerikaanse bommenwerperpiloten die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog tegen Nazi-Duitsland vochten

Masters of the air

Richard E. Sharpless

Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields

The Kingdom of Coal

Henry Steele Commager

"The Story of World War II is a completely rewritten, expanded, and updated version - more than 75 percent new - of the classic narrative of the war that captures all the immediacy of the original work and contains hundreds of new firsthand accounts. The Story of World War II contains more than 130 photographs and 22 maps."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Story of World War II

Although most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World War II there were more than one hundred D-Days. The largest—and last—was the invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, which brought together the biggest invasion fleet ever assembled, far larger than that engaged in the Normandy invasion. D-Days in the Pacific tells the epic story of the campaign waged by American forces to win back the Pacific islands from Japan. Based on eyewitness accounts by the combatants, it covers the entire Pacific struggle from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Pacific war was largely a seaborne offensive fought over immense distances. Many of the amphibious assaults on Japanese-held islands were among the most savagely fought battles in American history: Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, New Guinea, Peleliu, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Generously illustrated with photographs and maps, D-Days in the Pacific is the finest one-volume account of this titanic struggle.

D-Days in the Pacific

In 1956, at age 14, Don ran away from home with his younger brother after a one-way argument with his father. “I don’t give a damn if you want to finish watching your program!” Bring the boats in now!” After years of abuse, neglect and a family with no love, this incident broke the camel’s back. The next day, Don stole $35 from his father’s drawer before telling his mom of his runaway plans. “Oh, yeah?” she replied in her usual lackadaisical way, and then continued on with her sewing. The plan was to ride their bikes from Illinois to Florida, unbeknownst to them, a pedophile killer lurked the streets of Chicago. At 18, Don found an escape – he dropped out of school to join the Navy, where he met many other challenges. He was first stationed in Hawaii, right after it had become a state, and was attacked by a huge, crazed Samoan man, who may not have been fond about the US military being in his homeland! Several years later he got into a major argument with his wife and took off with the family car. He was going to Hollywood, California to find his sister, even though he didn’t know her last name, or where she lived. A miracle occurred when he got there. Now at age eighty, the author is going through his toughest challenge: caring for his wife of sixty-one years, who is struggling with the last stages of dementia and under hospice care. Join the author as he looks back at the obstacles he’s overcome and the lessons he’s learned along the way in Oh No! Not Another Brat!

Oh No! Not Another Brat!

This is the first comprehensive history of the anthracite industry and the unique regional culture that grew up with it. It is the story of one of America's first great industries and of the people who made it great--from the miserably paid immigrant mine workers to the powerful coal barons.

This volume looks at the history of the Eighth Air Force in Britain. It covers the individual destinies, the famous and notorious raids like Schweinfurt-Regensburg and Dresden, the social transformation of east Anglian villages by an influx of good-time Yanks, the POW camps, and the endless controversy about the ethics of bombing.

The American Bomber Crews in Britain

Eighth Air Force

Malcolm Cowley called Lewis Mumford "the last of the great humanists," and indeed, in more than six decades of writing, Mumford made contributions to history, philosophy, literature, art, architectural criticism, and urban planning. The author of some thirty books, Mumford produced a body of work almost unequaled in the twentieth century for its range and richness. A New York Times Notable Book, Donald Miller's engagingly written biography reveals Mumford's full and fascinating life. Based on ten years of research and unprecedented access to original and private papers, Miller penetrates Mumford's reserved public persona and takes in the complete man, his works as well as his days, as he struggles to transform the world -- and his own life -- in decades marked by unparalleled change. "Miller is an excellent critical guide to Mumford's voluminous writing." -- The New Yorker "A gracefully written biography." -- Francesca McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle "With this large, large-spirited life of Lewis Mumford ... Miller takes his place in the first rank of contemporary American biographers." -- David McCullough

Lewis Mumford, a Life

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought -- and whose outcome was in greater doubt -- than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war -- on land, at sea, and in the air -- and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.

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