Color frontispiece, extensive color illustrations, pictorial endpapers, 37 loose color facsimiles housed in ten bound-in still-sealed glassine sleeves. Blue paper over boards with gilt lettering, pictorial paper over boards slipcase. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, 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. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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