At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books - Nathanael Green, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns to Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter.
Here also is the Revolution as experienced by American Loyalists, Hessian mercenaries, politicians, preachers, traitors, spies, men and women of all kinds caught in the paths of war. And it is the story of the King's men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. "In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence - when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Illustrated with color portraits, frontispiece and maps.
Includes Acknowledgments Source Notes Bibliography and Index. As new condition blue boards/dark blue spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. It features a cast of amazing characters from George III to George Washington, to soldiers and their families. This book tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them.
Presents the story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. Whether King George III and George Washington or ordinary soldiers and their families, McCullogh recreates a cast of amazing characters on both sides, destroys myths and uses eyewitness reports to brilliant effect, making 1776 the most compelling account of this seismic conflict. In 1776 the American Revolution against British rule shook the world - and the United States was born.David McCullogh depicts the events of that fateful year with breathtaking imagination and flare, from the British decision to crush the Americans to the bitter setbacks and astonishing advances made by the patriot army.
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