1776
de David McCullough (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0743226712
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226714
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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Sinopsis
In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King’s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. Here also is the Revolution as experienced by American Loyalists, Hessian mercenaries, politicians, preachers, traitors, spies, men and women of all kinds caught in the paths of war. At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 015436
- Título
- 1776
- Autor
- David McCullough (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good +
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0743226712
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226714
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Palabras clave
- American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Red Coats, Declaration of Independence, General George Washington, Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox, King George III, Siege of Boston, 1776, Continental Army, William Howe, Battle of Brooklyn, David McCullough
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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