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Stanley Weintraub

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in Philadelphia, PA, The United States

April 17, 1929

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Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1929. He was the eldest child of Benjamin and Ray Segal Weintraub. He attended South Philadelphia High School, and then he attended West Chester State Teachers College (now West Chester University of Pennsylvania) where he received his B.S. in education in 1949. He continued his education at Temple University where he received his master's degree in English “in absentia,” as he was called to duty in the Korean War.

He received a commission as Army Second Lieutenant, and served with the Eighth Army in Korea receiving a Bronze Star.

After the War, he enrolled at Pennsylvania State University in September 1953; his doctoral dissertation “Bernard Shaw, Novelist” was accepted on May 6, ...more

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Stanley Weintraub’s books

Average rating: 3.68 · 12,316 ratings · 1,090 reviews · 87 distinct works • Similar authors

	Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914 3.59 avg rating — 4,966 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944 3.44 avg rating — 542 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 3.08 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victoria: An Intimate Biography 3.81 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert 4.06 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival During the Korean War 3.46 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783 3.47 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century 3.78 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783 3.66 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864 3.47 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition—not to determine who was right, but who was left.”
― Stanley Weintraub, Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914

tags: war, world-war-i

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“A future general, Captain Jack of the Cameronians, averse to the truce when on the line, had speculated in his diary a few days earlier, in almost Shavian fashion, about the larger implications of the cease-fire, which had extended farther than governments conceded, "It is interesting to visualize the close of a campaign owing to the opposing armies--neither of them defeated--having become too friendly to continue the fight.”
― Stanley Weintraub, Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914

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“Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.”
― Stanley Weintraub, Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941

tags: leadership, narcissism, self-promotion

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