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1776 by David Mccullough Publisher Comments In this masterful 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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier by John F Ross Publisher Comments Hailed as the father of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers was not only a wilderness warrior but North America's first noteworthy playwright and authentic celebrity. In a riveting biography, John F. Ross reconstructs the extraordinary... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.95 Used - Hardcover
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Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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Best Little Stories from the American Revolution by C Brian Kelly Publisher Comments Best Little Stories of the American Revolution is a journalistic history of the birth of the United States in the form of more than 100 vignettes reflecting the period. Here is the history of the war as it affected soldiers and civilians, loyalists and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake (American Indian Lives) by Blacksnake And Williams Publisher Comments One of the earliest memoirs by an American Indian, "Chainbreaker" presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fighter in the American Revolution who lived more than a century, Chainbreaker told his story as an old... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short History of the American Revolution by James L Stokesbury Publisher Comments The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the American colonies on the road to independence. Offering a spirited... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Liberty or Death: Wars That Forged a Nation by Daniel Marston Synopsis At the beginning of the 18th century, America was a colonized land with European countries squabbling over its many natural resources. In 1754, the French-Indian War broke out as a decisive battle between the French and British for control of North... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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1776 by David McCullough Staff Pick Staying in the territory of his acclaimed epic biography John Adams, David McCullough follows George Washington and the Continental Army through the tumultuous first year of war. An exceptional narrative historian, McCullough vividly examines the... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier by Alfred F Young Publisher Comments The remarkable story of the woman who fought in the American Revolution as Robert Shurtliff–and got away with it. Serving for seventeen months during the period between the British surrender at Yorktown and the signing of the final treaty, a time... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution by Gerald M. Carbone Publisher Comments When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer--celebrated as one of three most important... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War by Edwin Burrows Publisher Comments Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Crossing (99 Edition) by Howard Fast Publisher Comments Nobody has written more passionately or more vividly about the American Revolution than Howard Fast. The legendary living author of Freedom Road and Citizen Tom Paine, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Spartacus and the triumphant survivor of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution by Benson Bobrick Publisher Comments A disparate group of settlers, spread from New England to Georgia, agreed on little in the mid-eighteenth century. This fascinating history tells the story of how they eventually conquered the enemy, England, while it reminds readers just how divided the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Yorktown 1781 by Brendan Morrissey Publisher Comments In 1781, George Washington's rebuilt Continental Army marched on Yorktown - with support from the French - and defeated the British forces led by General Cornwallis. Their triumph led directly to the Treaty of Paris and the birth of the United States as... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.63 Used - Hardcover
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The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution (History of War) by John R Galvin Publisher Comments The concept of the farmer and shopkeeper pulling rifles off pegs on the wall to fight the British has been the typical image of the American minuteman. The fact that he may have had military training and drilled-and that April 19, 1775 was not his first... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Revolution, 1774-1783 (02 Edition) by Marston Publisher Comments The American Revolution has been characterized politically as a united political uprising of the American colonies and militarily as a guerrilla campaign of colonists against the inflexible British military establishment. Daniel Marston argues that this... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Day the Revolution Ended: 19 October 1781 by William H Hallahan Publisher Comments P... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Boston 1775 by Brendan Morrissey Synopsis Brendan Morrissey describes how the sparks at Lexington and Concord ignited the smoldering resentment of the Colonists into the flame of a rebellion. Colonist militia were pitted against British Redcoats in a series of struggles which led the British to... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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General George Washington: A Military Life by Edward G Lengel Publisher Comments Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and “father of his country.” Less often discussed is Washington’s military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.99 Sale - Hardcover
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Guilford Courthouse: North Carolina by John Hairr Publisher Comments DA CAPO's new "Battleground America" series offers a unique approach to the battles and battlefields of America. Each book in the series highlights a small American battlefield -- sometimes a small portion of a much larger battlefield -- and tells the... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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