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(0)Bruce Chadwick
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
399 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
vi, 406 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of the fateful marriage of the richest woman in Virginia and the man who could have been king. In telling their story, Chadwick explains not only their remarkable devotion to each other, but why the wealthiest couple in Virginia became revolutionaries who risked the loss of their vast estates and their very lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
x, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Wythe lived long enough to accuse his grandnephew of poisoning him and two other members of his household. Why did three prominent doctors insist that he hadn't been poisoned at all? Learn the grisly, fascinating, and often astounding tale of Wythe's murder and America's very first "trial of the century."
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians have described the attack in many well-regarded books, yet the event still remains overlooked at times in the minds of the public. The Cannons Roar seeks to remedy that. Rather than providing a third-person, after-the-fact description, acclaimed author Bruce Chadwick will tell the story of the...