Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War - Couverture rigide

Ketchum, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 080504681X ISBN 13 : 9780805046816

Editeur : Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1997

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Richard M. Ketchum has written eleven books, including The World of George Washington, Decisive Day: The Battle of Bunker Hill, and The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton.

As editor in charge of books at American Heritage Publishing Company for two decades, he edited many of that company's volumes, including The American Heritage Book of the Revolution and The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.

A graduate of Yale University, he commanded a subchaser in the South Atlantic during the Second World War, and was later director of overseas publications of the US Information Agency.

He and his wife live on a farm in Vermont - within an hour and a half's drive of many of the events described in the book - where they are active enivironmentalists.

Présentation de l'éditeur

More than the Civil War, more than the Second World War, the War of Independence was the most significant event in American history. And the battle of Saratoga in October 1777 was the turning point of that war. The British campaign that was supposed to end the rebellion ended instead in the surrender that changed the history of the world. Richard M. Ketchum tells the exciting story from a fresh point of view. Instead of listing the reasons why General John Burgoyne's seasoned troops lost the battle, Ketchum concentrates on the miracle of the assembling of thirteen thousand aroused, determind rebels under the General Horation Gates and their subsequent triumph. This is stirring narrative history, told skilfully through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080504681X
• ISBN 13: 9780805046816
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 545
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible