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Walter Lord's A Night to Remember is a minute-by-minute account of the Titanic's final hours. Lord wrote 12 books, honing an eye-witness approach to history whether it was Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor (Day of Infamy) or the defense of the Alamo (A Time to Stand) or the Battle of Midway (Incredible Victory). In The Way It Was, he tells his own story, about his life and books.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Walter Lord never fails to make history come alive.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War. (Library Binding)
Walter Lord takes the most significant historical events of the years 1900-1914, and gives it a human touch that makes you feel that you are there. He reveals volumes in sentences, and never disappoints. From the Boxer Rebellion to eve of World War I, The unique american perspective is well represented.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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The Good Read...,
For people interested in American history, this book is just what the doctor ordered to round out one's knowledge of the first fifteen years of the 20th Century. Walter Lord has a wonderful, ironic style that pulls the reader in, and makes him feel as if he is witnessing first-hand the historical events described in the book.
These events range from the assassination of William McKinley, Jr., and the Wright brothers' pioneering flights at Kitty Hawk, both familiar to the layman, to the lesser-known Panic of 1907, where one man, J. P. Morgan, almost single-handedly saved the American economy, and the downright obscure convention that nominated Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency in 1912. Great stuff, and highly worthwhile.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Good Years,
By Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War. (Library Binding)
In this book, Walter Lord, a popular historian, chooses to focus on the years 1900-1914 and gives us accounts of the most famous events of that time period: the Wright Brothers' flight, the San Francisco earthquake, union troubles, Peary and the North Pole, etc. Lord is mostly interested in the drama of historical events, and though he's a good writer, his work is more journalistic than deeply historical. But what he does, he does well.
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