The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington And the Men Behind America's First Fight for Freedom - Couverture souple

Chadwick, Bruce

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1402207530 ISBN 13 : 9781402207532

Editeur : Sourcebooks, Inc, 2006

Synopsis

This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army.

With interlocking stories of ordinary Americans, he evokes what it meant to face brutal winters, starvation, terrible homesickness and to go into battle against the much-vaunted British regulars and their deadly Hessian mercenaries.

The reader lives through the experiences of those terrible and heroic times when a fifteen-year-old fifer survived the Battle of Bunker Hill, when Private Josiah Atkins escaped unscathed from the bloody battles in New York and when a doctor and a minister shared the misery of the wounded and dying. These intertwining stories are drawn from their letters and never-before-quoted journals found in the libraries belonging to the camps where Washington quartered his troops during those desperate years.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bruce Chadwick is a former journalist and author of seven works of history including 1858, The First American Army, George Washington's War, The General and Mrs. Washington, Brother Against Brother, Two American Presidents, Traveling the Underground Railroad, and The Reel Civil War. He lectures in American history at Rutgers University and also teaches writing at New Jersey City University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sourcebooks, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1402207530
• ISBN 13: 9781402207532
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 399
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible