Biografien über die Amerikanische Revolution

Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

Autor: Joel Richard Paul

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Autor: Joseph J. Ellis

To the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Dan

Autor: Andrew Waters

Inside the Texas Revolution: The Enigmatic Memoir of Herman Ehrenberg

Herausgeber: James E. Crisp
Mitwirkende: James C. Kearney
Übersetzer: Louis E. Brister

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series, Band 2)

Autor: Nathaniel Philbrick

George Washington's Nemesis: The Outrageous Treason and Unfair Court-Martial of Major General Charles Lee During the Revolutionary War

Autor: Christian Mcburney

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

Autoren: Paul Reid, William Manchester

Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

Autor: Nancy Rubin Stuart

Joel Barlow: American Citizen in a Revolutionary World

Autor: Richard Jr. Buel

Landers, J: Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions

Jane G. Landers

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Nancy Isenberg

The Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger: 1772-1781 (Max Kade German-American Research Institute)

My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter

Pavel Palazchenko

The Autobiography of Maud Gonne: A Servant of the Queen

Maud Gonne

"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

Annette (Harvard Law School) Gordon-Reed, Peter S. (University of Virginia) Onuf

The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

Alex Storozynski

George Washington, Volume 4: Leader of the Revolution

Douglas Southall Freeman

Volume Four opens as the British abandoned Boston in March 1776. They moved their troops to Long Island and their fleet to New York Harbor. Washington, anticipating such a strategy, had moved his troops to New York and then came out to face the Redcoats in Brooklyn, but was driven back to the city. More British troops were landed on Manhattan Island, forcing Washington to withdraw north of the city, and finally to the Jersey side of the Hudson. When the English general, Howe, lunged for Philadelphia, Washington interposed his Continentals but was outmaneuvered.  

As the winter of 1777 approached with Redcoats occupying Philadelphia, Washington restricted the British army's supply line. But almost nobody believed the British could be defeated and few believed Washington's army could survive. Then, late on Christmas day 1776, George Washinton was once more beckoned by history. He did the impossible and crossed the ice-choked Delaware river to deliver a blow to the English crown. Suddenly, the war for independence gained new impetus. But the ordeal of winter-quarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania had to be overcome.

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The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life

Joyce Lee Malcolm

A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America's most complicated figures: The war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold.

Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles. Why did a brilliant military commander, who repeatedly risked his life fighting the British, who was grievously injured in the line of duty, and fell into debt personally funding his own troops, ultimately became a traitor to the patriot cause?

Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm skillfully unravels the man behind the myth and gives us a portrait of the true Arnold and his world. There was his dramatic victory against the British at Saratoga in 1777 and his troubled childhood in a pre-revolutionary America beset with class tension and economic instability. We witness his brilliant wartime military exploits and learn of his contentious relationship with a newly formed and fractious Congress, fearful of powerful military leaders, like Arnold, who could threaten the nation's fragile democracy.

Revolutionary: George Washington at War

Robert L. O'Connell

From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership,  defined the American character.

How did George Washington become an American icon? Robert L. O' Connell, the New York Times best-selling author of Fierce Patriot and The Ghosts of Cannae, introduces us to Washington before he was Washington: a young soldier champing at the bit for a commission in the British army, frustrated by his position as a minor Virginia aristocrat. Fueled by ego, Washington led a disastrous expedition in the Seven Years' War, but then the commander grew up. We witness George Washington take up politics and join Virginia's colonial governing body, the House of Burgesses, where he became ever more attuned to the injustices of life under the British Empire and the paranoid, revolutionary atmosphere of the colonies. When war seemed inevitable, he was the right man - the only man - to lead the nascent American army.

We would not be here without George Washington, and O' Connell proves that Washington the general was at least as significant to the founding of the United States as Washington the president. He emerges here as cunning and manipulative, a subtle puppeteer among intimates, and a master cajoler - but all in the cause of rectitude and moderation. Washington became the embodiment of the Revolution itself. He draped himself over the revolutionary process and tamped down its fires. As O' Connell writes, the war was decisive because Washington managed to stop a cycle of violence with the force of personality and personal restraint.

In his trademark conversational, witty style, Robert L. O' Connell has written a compelling reexamination of General Washington and his revolutionary world. He cuts through the enigma surrounding Washington to show how the general made all the difference and became a new archetype of revolutionary leader in the process. Revolutionary is a masterful character study of America's founding conflict filled with lessons about conspiracy, resistance, and leadership that resonate today.

Advance praise for Revolutionary:

" Given the amount of ink spilled over the years, it is not easy to offer a fresh look at George Washington's leadership role during the war for American independence. But Robert L. O' Connell has done it in Revolutionary. The title announces the insight, which is the otherwise uncontrollable political and military energies released by the war that Washington was able to orchestrate. " ( Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogues: The Founders and Us)

Amerikanische Revolution