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Jean Edward Smith

Jean Edward Smith
Jean Edward Smith taught at the University of Toronto for 35 years, and at Marshall University for 12. He has also been a visiting scholar at Columbia, Princeton, and Georgetown. He is the author of Bush, a biography of the 43rd president; Eisenhower in War and Peace; FDR, winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians; Grant, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist; John Marshall: Definer of a Nation; and The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz Saved the City of Lights.


On Hitler’s Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris

"Paris must not fall into enemy hands except as a field of ruins."
July 30, 2019  By Jean Edward Smith
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