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1776 (05 Edition)
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...
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Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by David Hacke 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...
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1776
by David McCullough 
Powells.com 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...
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Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought
by Michael Stephenson Publisher Comments Michael Stephenson's Patriot Battles is a comprehensive and richly detailed study of the military aspects of the War of Independence, and a fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat. Covering everything from what motivated those...
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Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
by Terry Golway Publisher Comments “Washington said if he went down in battle, Greene was his choice to succeed him. Read this book and you will understand why.” —Joseph J. Ellis, author of His Excellency: George Washington He was an unlikely...
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Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge
by Thomas Fleming Publisher Comments The defining moments of the Revolutionary War did not occur on the battlefield or at the diplomatic table, claims Thomas Fleming, but at Valley Forge, where the Continental Army wintered in 1777–78. WASHINGTON'S SECRET WAR tells the dramatic story...
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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...
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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...
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First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-307)....
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Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
by Mark Puls Publisher Comments Here is a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general whose skills as an engineer and artilleryman played a key role in all of George Washington's battles including the Siege of Boston (where his use of cannons at Dorchester Heights won...
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Almost a Miracle : the American Victory in the War of Independence (07 Edition)
by John Ferling Publisher Comments In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce...
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Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775
by Thomas A Desjardin Publisher Comments Before Benedict Arnold was branded a traitor, he was one of the colonies' most valuable leaders. In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Massachusetts, bound for the Maine wilderness. They had volunteered for a secret mission, under...
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Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge
by Thomas Fleming Publisher Comments "Congress does not trust me. I cannot continue thus," George Washington confided to Congressman Francis Dana of Massachusetts on his first visit to Valley Forge. Though Congressman Dana assured the general that a majority in Congress still had faith in...
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Benedict Arnold's Navy: The Ragtag Fleet That Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain But Won the American Revolution
by James L Nelson Publisher Comments “Benedict Arnold’s Navy is an excellent book.” --Associated Press “This book must be on the shelf of anyone who is interested in our struggle for independence, a war we should not have won against the strongest...
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The Minutemen and Their World (American Century Series)
by Robert A Gross Publisher Comments Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution...
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Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois
by Glenn F Williams Synopsis How the defeat of the Iroquois Confederacy changed the outcome of the American Revolution and ended a centuries-old democratic alliance....
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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...
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)
by Robert Middlekauff Publisher Comments The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning...
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The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution (History of War)
by John R. Galvin Synopsis A history from the first colonists' defense against Indian attacks to the firing of the "shot heard around the world"...
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American Revolution, 1774-1783 (02 Edition)
by Marston Synopsis 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...
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