“The War of the Revolution is a solid chunk of scholarship, likely toendure as a classical work on its subject.”—Time
Balancing social and political concerns of the period and perspectives of the average American revolutionary with a careful examination of the war itself, Ferling has crafted the ideal book for armchair military history buffs, a book about ...
The war of the American Revolution: narrative, chronology, and bibliography
... escape from Franklin's visit to capture of retreat from Montresor, John Moore, Capt. James Moore, Gen. James Moore's Creek Bridge, skirmish at “Morals of Chess, The” (Franklin) Morgan, Daniel Morgan, Edmund S. Morison, George Morris ...
Featuring essays from leading scholars and historians, and fully illustrated with historical military portraiture, documents, and maps indicating campaigns and territories, this book offers a completely new understanding of the American ...
It’s a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses of the Russian Revolution; or François Furet, who links the Stalinist purges to an ...
The War for Independence touched virtually every American. It promised liberty, the opportunity for a better life, and the excitement of the battlefield. It also brought disappointment, misery, and mourning....
"In You Choose format, explores the Revolutionary War from the perspectives of colonists, British soldiers, militia soldiers, and foreigners"--
In this final book in the three-volume set, Lossing reaches the end of his journey with Southern cities such as Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia.
Brands tells the story of the American Revolution as it really unfolded—as a civil war between colonial patriots and those loyal to the British Crown and Parliament.
This fascinating examination considers the dreams of that year’s warriors, pacifists, activists, revolutionaries, and reactionaries—from Czar Nicholas II to Woodrow Wilson, from Theodore Roosevelt to the fiery congresswoman Jeannette ...