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Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783

Door Stanley Weintraub

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#328473-ZA3
Titel	Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783
Auteur	Weintraub, Stanley
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Free Press
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0743226879
ISBN13	9780743226875
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w illustrations, maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting	A startling new history of the Revolutionary War, told from the perspectives of both the colonists and the colonizers. For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance, exclusively from the perspective of the Continental army and the Founding Fathers. Now, inIron Tears, master historian Stanley Weintraub offers the first account that examines the war from three divergent and distinct vantage points: the battlefields; the American leadership under George Washington; and—most originally—that of England, embroiled in controversy over the war. Iron Tears renders an unprecedented account of the fight for American independence through British eyes, while dramatically narrating the battles that were waged across the Atlanti... (Lees verder)c from Lexington to Yorktown and beyond. As the general, whom the British snobbishly and demeaningly referred to as “Mr. Washington,” rallied to keep his ragged and overmatched Continentals together and create a nation, “iron tears” fell from redcoat muskets and cannons, as well as from the demoralized eyes of the defeated British. Weintraub's multifaceted analysis will forever change and expand our view of the American Revolution.
Pagina's	375
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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