Download or read book Manhattan '45 written by Jan Morris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Manhattan '45, one of the greatest contemporary prose stylists leads us down the gang plank with the returning GIs, and allows us to discover for ourselves the island of Manhattan as it was 45 years ago--from Hudson River ferryboats to the El, Harlem and the Lower East Side to the menu at the legendary Le Pavillon.