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The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
by Barbara W Tuchman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0394553330
- ISBN 13
- 9780394553337
- Seller
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Independence, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
From the front DJ flap: In this book, Ms Tuchman "...turns her signts homeward to give us a deeply insightful view of certain pivotal events of the American Revolution."
This study "...illuminates for us the ways in which not only America and England were affected by the Revolution, but Holland and France, and, by extension, the entire Old World as well."
Book - Very Good condition. Blue paper over boards w navy cloth spine and gold gilt on front and spine. There are a couple small spots on the closed book page edges. Text is clean and binding is tight.
Dust Jacket - Very Good- condition. A little edge/corner wear, but mostly at spine where there is also a 1/2" closed tear on the front.
347 pages including Index.
Synopsis
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August —a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute .
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- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1880
- Title
- The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
- Author
- Barbara W Tuchman
- Format/Binding
- Paper over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394553330
- ISBN 13
- 9780394553337
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 347
- Keywords
- American Revolution, American history, England, Holland, France, political, Europe's role, Colonials, Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, Lord Cornwallis, Admiral Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse, General George Washington, 500-mile march
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - American; History - World; Revolutionary War; Political Science;
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