The First Salute
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781842121771 (1842121774)
Publish date: September 21st 2000
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 347
Edition language: English
A fascinating and seemingly unique view of the American war of independence by an American. The perspective is about as trans-Atlantic as I've ever read, and that's a little shocking given that it is a book by an American for Americans. It is altogether unique among the histories I have read for h...
Rating: 3.75* of fiveThe American Revolution is so often romanticized and distorted by the political needs of Government and Policy that its reality, a ragtag rebellion of seditious wealthy men subsidized by the long-term enemies of England, gets completely lost. Tuchman, in her trademark popular-na...