William Manchester (1922–2004)

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1. William Manchester

   Author of A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

2. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

3. Reader's Digest

   Author of Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1987 v02, Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1984 v05, Reader's Digest Select Editions 2003 v01 #265

4. Winston S. Churchill

   Author of The Gathering Storm, A history of the English-speaking peoples, Their Finest Hour

5. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, A History of Warfare, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

6. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Discoverers, The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World, The Americans: The National Experience

7. David McCullough

   Author of Truman, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theo

8. Robert A. Caro

   Author of Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

9. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

10. Norman F. Cantor

    Author of In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made, The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, Inventing the Middle Ages

11. William L. Shirer

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941, The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940

12. Robert K. Massie

    Author of Peter the Great, Dreadnought, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

13. David Halberstam

    Author of The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning

14. Rick Atkinson

    Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, The Day of Battle, The Long Gray Line

15. Theodore H. White

    Author of The Making of the President 1960, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, The Making of the President 1964

16. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    Author of A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, The Age of Roosevelt: The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933, The Imperial Presidency

17. Shelby Foote

    Author of The Civil War, a narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville, The Civil War, a narrative : Red River to Appomattox, The Civil War, A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian

18. John Willard Toland

    Author of Adolf Hitler, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War), The Last 100 Days

19. Gordon W. Prange

    Author of At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Miracle at Midway

20. Samuel Eliot Morison

    Author of The Oxford History of the American People, John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography, The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War