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{{short description|American historian}}
'''Leon Wolff''' was an author who wrote [[In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign|In Flanders Fields]]
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'''Leon Wolff''' (September 2, 1914 – October 11, 1991)<ref name="death">''California, Death Index, 1940-1997''</ref><ref>''Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index, 1871–1922''</ref> was an American historian who wrote ''[[In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign]]''.


==Biography==
'''Biography''' Wolff was born in November 1914, to a Jewish family, the son of a traveling salesman, and grew up in Chicago. He had graduated from Northwestern
University, then served in the USA as a second lieutenant in the US Army Air Force during World War II. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/W/L/au28496424.html|title=In Flanders Fields|last=University of Chicago Press|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
Wolff was born and raised in [[Chicago]]<ref>''U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940–1947''</ref> in a Jewish family, the son of Abe Wolff, a traveling salesman, and Bessie Billow, a Russian emigrant.<ref>''1940 United States Federal Census''</ref><ref>''U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007''</ref> He graduated from [[Northwestern University]], then served as a second lieutenant in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/W/L/au28496424.html|title=Leon Wolff|publisher=University of Chicago Press|access-date=2019-09-26}}</ref>


After the war he started a correspondence school, the Lincoln School of Practical Nursing, in Chicago. In 1953, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he would transplant the business and cultivated his interests in golf and jazz. Wolff wrote four books over the next dozen years. Low Level Mission (1957) described the United States’ World War II air campaign against German-controlled oil fields in Ploesti, Romania. In Flanders Field: The 1917 Campaign (1958), an account of Britain’s World War I offensive in 1917, otherwise known as the [[Battle of Passchendaele|Third Battle of Ypres]], or Passchendaele. It was Wolff’s most successful book. Wolff followed with Little Brown Brother (1961), then wrote a final book, Lockout (1965), a pro-labor history of the 1892 steelworkers’ strike at Homestead, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulkrameronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wolffintro.pdf|title=DECOLONIZING THE HISTORY OF
After the war, he started a correspondence school, the [[Lincoln School of Practical Nursing]], in Chicago. In 1953, he and his family moved to [[Los Angeles]], where he transplanted the business and cultivated his interests in golf and jazz. Wolff wrote four books over the next dozen years.Low-Level ''Mission'' (1957) described World War II's [[Operation Tidal Wave]] against the [[Ploiești|Ploești]] oil fields in [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]], by the US Army Air Forces. ''In Flanders Field: The 1917 Campaign'' (1958), an account of the [[World War I]] offensive in 1917, otherwise known as the [[Battle of Passchendaele|Third Battle of Ypres]], or Passchendaele. Wolff also wrote the [[Francis Parkman Prize|Francis ParkmanPrize-winning]]-winning book ''Little Brown Brother'' (1961), originally subtitled ''How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484016.Little_Brown_Brother|title=Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippines|website=Goodreads|access-date=2019-09-26}}</ref> then wrote a final book, ''Lockout: The Story of the Homestead Strike of 1892'' (1965), about the [[Homestead strike|eponymous steel strike]] at [[Homestead, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kramer|first=Paul A. |chapter-url=http://www.paulkrameronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/wolffintro.pdf|chapter=Introduction: Decolonizing the History of the Philippine–American War|date=December 8, 2005|title=Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn|edition=Francis Parkman Prize|pages=ix–xviii|isbn=1-58288-209-6|access-date=2019-09-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/leon-wolff-3/lockout-3/|title=Lockout|magazine=Kirkus Reviews|access-date=2019-09-26}}</ref>
THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR|last=Kramer|first=Paul|date=2005|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>


He died in Los Angeles in 1991.<ref name="death"/>
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Leon Wolff (September 2, 1914 – October 11, 1991)[1][2] was an American historian who wrote In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign.

Biography[edit]

Wolff was born and raised in Chicago[3] in a Jewish family, the son of Abe Wolff, a traveling salesman, and Bessie Billow, a Russian emigrant.[4][5] He graduated from Northwestern University, then served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.[6]

After the war, he started a correspondence school, the Lincoln School of Practical Nursing, in Chicago. In 1953, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he transplanted the business and cultivated his interests in golf and jazz. Wolff wrote four books over the next dozen years.Low-Level Mission (1957) described World War II's Operation Tidal Wave against the Ploești oil fields in Romania, by the US Army Air Forces. In Flanders Field: The 1917 Campaign (1958), an account of the World War I offensive in 1917, otherwise known as the Third Battle of Ypres, or Passchendaele. Wolff also wrote the Francis ParkmanPrize-winning-winning book Little Brown Brother (1961), originally subtitled How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn,[7] then wrote a final book, Lockout: The Story of the Homestead Strike of 1892 (1965), about the eponymous steel strike at Homestead, Pennsylvania.[8][9]

He died in Los Angeles in 1991.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b California, Death Index, 1940-1997
  2. ^ Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index, 1871–1922
  3. ^ U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940–1947
  4. ^ 1940 United States Federal Census
  5. ^ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007
  6. ^ "Leon Wolff". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  7. ^ "Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippines". Goodreads. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  8. ^ Kramer, Paul A. (December 8, 2005). "Introduction: Decolonizing the History of the Philippine–American War" (PDF). Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn (Francis Parkman Prize ed.). pp. ix–xviii. ISBN 1-58288-209-6. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  9. ^ "Lockout". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved September 26, 2019.


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