Russell Freedman received the Newbery Medal for LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY. He is also the recipient of three Newbery Honors, the Sibert Medal, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and was selected to give the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City.
"In his signature lucid style, Freedman offers a photo-essay that
examines World War I. . .An important addition to history
curriculum."--Booklist, starred review"Elegantly written and filled
with vivid, powerful photographs, this masterful work demands a
spot in every collection."--School Library Journal, starred
review
"Freedman once again demonstrates his incomparable mastery of
presenting complex, sweeping historical subjects in an engaging,
dynamic narrative."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review"[Freedman's]
dramatic, often heart-wrenching narrative ends with a brief
description of the rise of Hitler, leading to the reopening of
hostilities in 1939. Although his focus is the war in Europe, and
the book is unusually evenhanded in assessing the faults and
virtues of the combatant countries, Freedman touches on fighting
elsewhere in the world."--Horn Book, starred review"It was the war
that world leaders didn't want to fight, and the war that didn't
quite end, and here Freedman narrates its story with a steady eye
on the wasteful atrocity that ushered in modern warfare. . . .
Freedman's timely organization of chronological events and topical
issues is masterful, and the allegretto pacing of his narration
seems deceptively effortless."--The Bulletin, starred review "This
gritty, well-sourced account of WWI offers a compelling and often
horrific look at the conflict. Freedman (Washington at Valley
Forge) hooks readers with his fluid style and a detail-rich story
of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination and the political powder keg
that existed at the time in Europe...Readers' conclusions will
likely mirror that of a French soldier writing in his diary just
before he was killed: "Humanity is mad!... What scenes of horror
and carnage!"--Publishers Weekly, starred review
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