World War II: Saving the Reality uniquely captures the experience of this monumental conflict. Along with compelling narrative and never-before-published photographs, you'll hold replicas of nearly one hundred wartime artifacts: letters from the front, autographed portraits of commanding generals, urgent communiqués, Nazi propaganda, historic newspapers, Top Secret instructions, patriotic posters, and more. These pieces of history, from the archives of the famous Museum of World War II, are tucked and folded into envelopes and pockets within the massive, boxed collector's book. Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin calls it remarkable and praises its emotional journey back in time. Phil Reed OBE, a director of the Imperial War Museum in London, says, Kenneth Rendell s Museum of World War II simply has no equal. The museum can at last be widely enjoyed through this volume. By Kenneth W. Rendell. Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin. 144 pages, with more than 80 replicas; coffee-table size; full color; hardcover in library slipcase.

World War II: Saving the Reality: A Collector's Vault

History

Rendell, Kenneth W.

Military

Whitman Pub Llc

Kenneth Rendell's fascination with the American West dates back to childhood in the late 1940's, when movies and radio — and, eventually, television — abounded with Western stories.
 "My vision of the West at that young age was highly romanticized, " he says. "but that image didn't last long."
 He'd soon read enough history to realize that the West of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and Hopalong Cassidy was a fantasy world with no connection to reality except the scenery.
 "It wasn't this fantasy world that captured and held my attention," says the award-winning author. "It was the beauty of the landscape and, most important, the dream of freedom and opportunity that inspired me with a sense of adventure not unlike the spirit of the first pioneers. I never longed to be a cowboy or a gunfighter, but I did yearn to escape from my neighborhood to the wide-open spaces of the West, where a man could do whatever he could do. "
 In The Great American West:Pursuing the American Dream, Rendell serves up a combination of the engaging text and dramatic imagery that made his book World War II:Saving the Reality such a popular seller. Readers will see dozens of Western artifacts and relics, letters from famous outlaws, old newspaper clippings, historical maps and posters, and other rarities make the American West come alive — a once-in-a-lifetime experience to be shared with the whole family.

The Great American West: Pursuing the American Dream

Americas

From the best-selling author of World War II: Saving the Reality comes a new book that gathers 50 of the most important and iconic documents of the biggest war in human history. Kenneth W. Rendell tells the dramatic stories of these history-drenched documents, each one part of his outstanding collection in the Museum of World War II.
 Inside you'll find: <ul>
<li>A hand-written letter by Benito Mussolini, around 1908: "Life in this semi-wild village of my birth is beginning to weigh on me, and to get away from it I got and idea...."</li> <li>The 1933 order by which Hindenburg gave in to Adolf Hitler's demands - leading to what would be the last elections held in Weimar Germany.</li> <li>A program outlining the Nazi Party's original platform, with a colored sketch by Hitler.</li> <li>Franklin Roosevelt's letter to the people of France after their defeat by Germany.</li> <li>The first urgent message sent during the Japanese attack in 1941: "Air raid on Pearl Harbor X This is no drill."</li> <li>Japan's declaration of war against the United States.</li> <li>A poignant letter from General Dwight Eisenhower to his wife - the most revealing letter of a commander-in-chief in wartime.</li> <li>A letter from Winston Churchill to Josef Stalin, deciding the fate of Poland.</li> <li>The communique signed by Eisenhower, announcing the D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.</li> <li>A letter from General George S. Patton, describing the Battle of the Bulge - as it was happening.</li> <li>A note from Oscar Schindler, who saved Polish Hews by putting them on his list of "factory workers" - "Mrs. Kellner is to be considered a Swedish citizen and is to be exempted from bearing the distinctive Jewish sign."</li> <li>Hitler's order of March 30, 1945, one month before his suicide, ordering the fanatical defense of Berlin.</li> <li>A letter from Franklin Roosevelt, five days before his death, writing of "complete victory over our enemies."</li> <li>General MacArthur's draft of the surrender terms for Japan.</li> <li>Hermann Goering's detention report from Nuremberg.</li> <li>Letters from Anne Frank's father and aunt after the war.</li> <li>A letter from Harry Truman, 1957, explaining the necessity of dropping the atomic bombs.</li> <li>and many more historic and profoundly important documents.</li> </ul>
 Ken Rendell - master collector, literary sleuth, and historian - has given us a book that I will long treasure and restudy. Thousands of others will do the same." - John S.D. Eisenhower (Retired Ambassador, U.S. Army Brigadier General, Son of Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Politics, War, and Personality: Fifty Iconic World War II Documents That Changed the World

Safeguarding History: Trailblazing Adventures Inside the Worlds of Collecting and Forging History

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Whitman Publishing, LLC

Discusses the art of manuscript, document, and antiquity forgery, and explains how such fakes can be detected

Forging History: The Detection of Fake Letters & Documents

World

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

In History Comes to Life: Collected Historical Letters and Documents, Kenneth W. Rendell guides the reader through all aspects of collecting irresistible letters, manuscripts, and documents in virtually all subject areas from ancient times through the twentieth century. The book discusses the reasons why collectors acquire these tangible links to the people they admire; the material available on the market; the people who are attracted to the field; where manuscripts are to be found; the detection of forgeries; ways in which the value of documents is determined; and the care and preservation of collections. Rendell also provides a mass of information on the type, availability, and rarity of autograph material for more than one thousand prominent personalities in various subject areas - American history, including an in-depth coverage of presidential material; English, French, and other European political and military history, including World War II; music, art, literature, and the performing arts; and other areas, including science, business, exploration, religion, law, and sports.

History Comes to Life: Collecting Historical Letters and Documents

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