The First Salute
A View of the American Revolution
$34.83
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
8 November 1996
Summary
In this beautifully repackaged and reissued edition, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August brings her keen talents for narrative and characterization to the sweeping history of the American Revolution and its key players.
Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Salute, one of Americ…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345336675 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0345336674 |
| Author: | Barbara W. Tuchman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 8 November 1996 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 137mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
“Nothing in a novel could be more thrilling than the moment in this glorious history when French soldiers arrive [to] see a tall, familiar figure: George Washington… . It is only part of Tuchman’s genius that she can reconstitute such scenes with so much precision and passion.”—People
“Tuchman writes narrative history in the great tradition… . A persuasive book, which brings us entertaining pictures, scenes and characters.”—Chicago Tribune
“[A] tightly woven narrative, ingeniously structured.”—The Christian Science Monitor
About The Author
Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August-a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute.
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