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The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution

By: Anderson, Virginia DeJohn

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: June 2017

Seller ID: 466424

ISBN: 0199916861

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general, George Washington. The other man traveled to New York to accept a captain's commission in a loyalist regiment before returning home to recruit others to join British forces. Neither man completed his mission. Both met their deaths at the end of a hangman's rope, one executed as a spy for the American cause and t...
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Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

By: Boot, Max

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 471539

ISBN: 0871404249

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world--when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies--Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan, masterfully guides us from the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire up through the horrors of the French-Indochina War and the shadowy, post-9/11 battlefields of today. Relying on a diverse cast of unforgettable characters--not only Mao and Che but also the legendary Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi, the archaeologist-turned-military command...
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Valley Forge

By: Drury, Bob,Clavin, Tom

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 2019

Seller ID: 467722

ISBN: 1501152726

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is return
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WASHINGTONS GENERAL

By: Golway, Terry

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Griffin: January 2006

Seller ID: 466918

ISBN: 0805080058

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of American independence at Yorktown
Nathanael Greene is a revolutionary hero who has been lost to history. Although places named in his honor dot city and country, few people know his quintessentially American story as a self-made, self-educated military genius who renounced his Quaker upbringing-horrifying his large family-to take up arms against the British. Untrained in military matters when he joined the Rhode Island militia in 1774, he...
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Saratoga

By: Ketchum, Richard

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: May 1999

Seller ID: 467285

ISBN: 0805061231

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Indepence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring narrative history, skillfully told through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign, Saratoga brings to life as never before the inspiring story of Americans who did their utmost in what seemed a lost cause, achieving what proved to be the crucial victory of the Revolution.
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The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton

By: Ketchum, Richard M.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: May 1999

Seller ID: 467282

ISBN: 0805060987

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the fall of 1776 the British delivered a crushing blow. New York fell and the anguished retreat through New Jersey followed. Winter came with a vengeance, bringing what Thomas Paine called "the times that try men's souls."
"The Winter Soldiers "is the story of a small band of men held together by George Washington in the face of disaster and hopelessness, desperately needing at least one victory to salvage both cause and country. It is a tale of unimaginable hardship and suffering that culminated in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Without these triumphs, the rebellion that had beg...
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Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill

By: Ketchum, Richard M.

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: May 1999

Seller ID: 467283

ISBN: 0805060995

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Boston, 1775: A town occupied by General Thomas Gage's redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees from the Massachusetts countryside. Besieged for two months by a rabble in arms, the British decided to break out of town. American spies discovered their plans, and on the night of June 16, 1775, a thousand rebels marched out onto Charlestown peninsula and began digging a redoubt (not on Bunker Hill, which they had been ordered to fortify, but on Breeds Hill, well within cannon shot of the British batteries and ships). At daybreak, HMS Lively began firing. It was the opening round of a battle that ...
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Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle (Volume 54) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)

By: Lender, Mark Edward,Stone Ph.D, Garry Wheeler

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: March 2017

Seller ID: 466054

ISBN: 0806157488

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Historians have long considered the Battle of Monmouth one of the most complicated engagements of the American Revolution. Fought on Sunday, June 28, 1778, Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington. Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washington's critics might well have marshaled the political strength to replace him as the American commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone argue that in political terms, the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotal mome...
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Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)

By: Middlekauff, Robert

Price: $9.50

Seller ID: 467655

ISBN: 019531588X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England and America, highlighting the drama and anguish of the colonial struggle for independence. Combining the political and the personal, he provides a comp...
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Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution

By: Paul, Joel Richard

Price: $4.00

Publisher: June 2012

Seller ID: 467773

ISBN: 1594484872

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Look out for Joel Paul's new book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Silas Deane, a Connecticut merchant and member of the Continental Congress, went to France to persuade the king to support the colonists in their struggle with Britain. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a playwright who had access to the arms and ammunition that Deane needed. And the Chevalier d' on was a diplomat and sometime spy for the French king who ignited a crisis that persuaded the French to arm the Americans. This is the true story of how three remarkable people li...
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Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy

By: Phelps, M. William

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ForeEdge: March 2015

Seller ID: 466527

ISBN: 1611687675

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Although famous for his purported last words--"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"--few people know the real Nathan Hale. M. William Phelps brings into focus the life of this famed patriot and first spy of the American Revolution, charting Hale's rural childhood, his education at Yale, and his work as a schoolteacher. Like many young Americans, he was soon drawn into the colonies' war for independence and became a captain in Washington's army. When the general was in need of a spy, Hale willingly rose to the challenge, gathering intelligence behind British lines on L...
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The War of the Revolution

By: Ward, Christopher

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Skyhorse: January 2011

Seller ID: 466920

ISBN: 1616080809

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the first crack of musket fire at Lexington and Concord to the downing of the British colors at Yorktown, Christopher Ward does not tell the whole history of the American Revolution, but rather, illuminates the history of the war caused by that revolution--the military operations on land in the War for Independence. When The War for the Revolution was first published almost sixty years ago, it was instantly recognized as a modern classic of American historical scholarship, as well as a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction Revolutionary War history. Today it is probably the most cite...
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The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist

By: Warner, Jessica

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Publisher: Basic Books: September 2005

Seller ID: 467440

ISBN: 1560257334

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

His real name was James Aitken, though he was better known as "John the Painter," and during the early months of the American Revolution, he wreaked havoc in England by performing acts of terror on behalf of America. In this first full-length chronicle of the man who attempted to burn down royal navy yards across England, Jessica Warner paints a tart and entertaining portrait of the world's first modern terrorist. At the height of the scare, King George III received daily briefings from his ministers, the Bow Street Runners were on the chase, newspapers printed sensational stories, and in Parl...
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Category: Military History/Revolutionary War