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    Winston Groom

    Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)
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    The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
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    Gump and Co. (Forrest Gump, #2)
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    The Year That Tried Men's Souls
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    The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
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    El Paso
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    Shiloh,
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    Vicksburg
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    A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, Tragedy and Triumph on the Western

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    Winston Groom presents “The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II”

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    The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy is delighted to host best-selling author Winston Groom for a presentation about his new book, which tells the complex story of how three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders aligned to win World War II and create a new world order. By the end of World War II, 59 nations were arrayed against the Axis powers, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin had emerged to control the war in Europe and the Pacific. Vastly different in upbringing and political beliefs, they were not always in agreement—or even on good terms. Often led by Churchill's enduring spirit, in the end these three men changed the course of history.

    Using the remarkable letters between the three world leaders, enriching narrative details of their p

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    Winston Groom Biography

    Winston Groom is a Southern novelist in the truest sense of the word. His Southernness permeates both his novels and his non-fiction. His characters speak with Southern voices, and life in his novels moves according to a distinctly Southern timeline. Following the tradition of other Southern writers like William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Pat Conroy, Groom lovingly peoples his books with quirky characters who pay homage to Southern history and the modern-day South in a single breath. While the South is more evident in his novels, Groom's non-fiction also echoes his Southern roots.

    Groom was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf Coast. After a stint in the Army, Groom returned to Washington, D.C., where he worked as a reporter on the now defunct Washington Star, covering the political and court beat. Willie Morris, the newspaper's writer-in-residence believed that young Groom had the potential to become a writer and enc

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