Stanley Weintraub

On Christmas Eve, 1914, Allied and German forces laid down their arms and celebrated Christmas as brothers.

Biography of Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Chronicles the reign of Edward VII--the philandering eldest son of Queen Victoria--from his difficult childhood and his arranged marriage to Princess Alexandra of Denmark to his scandalous love affairs and his accession to the throne.

He was a dandy, an adventurer, a spendthrift, a sensational popular novelist. Combining political flair with an appetite for wine, women, and salons, he overcame a reputation as a loser by his election - while debtor's prison loomed - to the immunity of a seat in Parliament. More than once, disabling depression had left him bedridden, but his physician was ambition and women his tonic. He married a widow twelve years his senior for her money and forged...

"For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance, exclusively from the perspective of the Continental army and the Founding Fathers. Now, in Iron Tears, master historian Stanley Weintraub offers the first account that examines the war from three divergent and distinct vantage points: the battlefields; the American leadership under George Washington; and - most originally - that of England, embroiled...