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David McCullough · 393 pages
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 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
Washington's Crossing
David Hackett Fischer · 693 pages
Enlightening. To say the least. A very good light into the politics of our country. Not exactly what you learned in school. The author did his homework and when you finish this book, you will have a new perspective. For example,Jefferson was so active in undermining Adams that when he became President he got a law passed making it an act of sedition to speak against the President. That Hamil
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Robert Middlekauff · 736 pages
Recounts the events leading up to the Revolution and discusses the major leaders, campaigns, and battles of the war.
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
John Ferling · 679 pages
Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution
Patrick K. O'Donnell · 463 pages
In August 1776, General George Washington's army faced off against over 20,000 British and Hessian soldiers at the Battle of Brooklyn. It was almost the end of the war. But thanks to a series of desperate bayonet charges by a single heroic regiment from Maryland, known as the "Immortal 400," Washington was able to retreat and regroup.
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, O'Reilly and Dugard chronicle the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the listener from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. They recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker Hill, Long Island, Saratoga, and Yorktown, revealing the savager
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
Alistair Horne · 480 pages
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Alexander Rose · 369 pages
In 1778, George Washington unleashed an unlikely ring of spies in New York to discover British battle plans.
Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
Bernard B. Fall · 515 pages
It is "the" definitive book on the battle for Dien Bien Phu. Bernard Falls telling of the battle puts you right in the trenches with the French soldiers. His vivid description of the French paratroopers and their heroic but futile defense of a totally indefensible position, gives the reader a first hand account of what it is to fight a desperate but hopeless action with true bravery and indefati
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss · 430 pages
“In the early 1800s, General Alex Dumas was purposefully disappeared by hie enemies. And though his son sought to make him live through his classic novels, for too long his story has remained silenced. The Black Count vividly vindicates the great general, restoring him to his rightful place at the center of the Age of Revolution.
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, Garnet Kindervater · 160 pages
"In 1776 Thomas Jefferson, a future president, authored the most explosive document in the history of America: The Declaration of Independence, formally severing the link between America and the British state. Michael Hardt, co-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, examines this and other texts by Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy is, seen through contemporary
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood · 447 pages
The History of Rome, Books XXI-XXX: The War With Hannibal
Livy · 712 pages
Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War
Richard M. Ketchum · 545 pages
More than the Civil War, more than World War II, the American Revolution is the most significant event in the nation's past, and the British surrender at Saratoga was the turning point of that struggle. In the summer of 1777 - two years after Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, twelve months after the brave Declaration of Independence - the British launched an invasion from Canada under General
Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution
A.J. Langguth · 640 pages
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
Jack N. Rakove · 487 pages
"Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who invented America. Much has been written about the military struggle that led to independence, but Rakove is far more concerned with the intellectual one: the competing views of politics, war, diplomacy and society that shaped the very idea of an American nation. Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, from 1772 to
Boston, 1776
J. D. Dickey · 417 pages
Relive the chaos, courage, and color of the American Revolution’s capital city while meeting those who led the fight in the nation’s War of Independence. Features nine immersive walking tours on seven period-style maps— plus 45 historical images! Welcome to Revolution City—where the air smells of tar, booze, gunpowder . . . and rebellion. In Boston, 1776, author J. D. Dickey leads us through the t
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Sarah Vowell · 288 pages
On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was 120,00
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides
Rosalyn Schanzer · 60 pages
Explores how the characters and lives of King George III of England and George Washington affected the progress and outcome of the American Revolution.
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Joseph J. Ellis · 304 pages
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders--Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams. He c
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger · 205 pages
This book portrays the intelligence agents known as George Washington's secret six, who were recruited by Washington to gather information secretly and contributed to the general's successes in the Revolutionary War. The coauthor is Don Yaeger.
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453
Roger Crowley · 320 pages
Black Hawk Down
Mark Bowden · 486 pages
Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city,