The people's war : original voices of the American Revolution
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Published
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, 2012.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780762770700 (hdbk.) :, 0762770708 (hdbk.) :
Physical Desc
ix, 614 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Morris County Library - Adult Nonfiction | 973.3 RAE | Available |
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Published
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, 2012.
Language
English
ISBN
9780762770700 (hdbk.) :, 0762770708 (hdbk.) :
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-599) and index.
Description
The People's War is the story of one of history's great events, the American Revolutionary War, told almost entirely in the words of the soldiers who fought it and the civilians who endured it. Drawing on thousands of original sources: diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers, pension applications, the author Noel Rae has culled the most colorful and vivid passages and woven them into a vibrant, eyewitness narrative that takes us from the peaceful days before the Stamp Act, through all the war's major events, and ends with farewell accounts of what happened in later life to the people we have come to know along the way. Some of these figures, like Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, and King George III, are familiar figures, but most were ordinary people, little known to history, but here briefly emerging from obscurity: a farm boy who ran away to sea at the age of twelve, a pretty young widow roughed up by Tory ruffians, and a slave who escaped to the British after witnessing his mother being flogged. These are but a few of those whose collective voices, drawn from all sides of the conflict, bring the Revolution truly to life in a history at its most entertaining and authoritative, for who better qualified to tell what happened than the people who were there?
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Rae, N. (2012). The people's war: original voices of the American Revolution . Lyons Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rae, Noel. 2012. The People's War: Original Voices of the American Revolution. Lyons Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Rae, Noel. The People's War: Original Voices of the American Revolution Lyons Press, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Rae, Noel. The People's War: Original Voices of the American Revolution Lyons Press, 2012.
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