Shots heard round the world : America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War

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Shots heard round the world : America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War

(2025)

By: Ferling, John E.

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

973.33/FERLING,J

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Adult Nonfiction	973.33/FERLING,J	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., [2025]
©2025

DESCRIPTION

xxiv, 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9781639730155, 163973015X :, 9781639730155, 163973015X :

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

Maps -- Preface -- Decisions for war -- War -- Success and failure -- Pivotal actions and inactions -- European aid and planning for campaign 1777 -- The critical moment is at hand: the 1777 campaign -- Building castles in the air -- Stalemate -- Armies and navies, soldiers and sailors -- Off the battlefield -- Into the southern vortex -- The war's outcome hangs in the balance -- On the knife's edge -- The decisive Allied victory in the American Theater -- War and peace -- Reflections on America's Revolutionary War -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index

"From acclaimed historian John Ferling, a major, global reappraisal of the Revolutionary War on its 250th anniversary"--Book jacket