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The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
by Tuchman, Barbara W
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394553330
- ISBN 13
- 9780394553337
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Hardcover Book Club Edition and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Barbara Tuchman is one of America's most eminent and widely-read historians. She here offers insights into certain pivotal events of the American revolution. She illustrates how not only England and America were affected by the Revolution but also Holland and France, and even the entire Old World as well. 16 pages of illustrations and 6 maps. Maps on endpapers. Bound in navy cloth over spine, blue paper-wrapped boards, with sharp and bright gilt titles; clean and unmarked; tight, solid and square; light rubbing to lower edge of rear panel. Internals As New. 347 pages with Bibliography, Reference Notes, and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1988, Alfred A Knopf Inc, New York, New York, USA
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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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025528
- Title
- The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
- Author
- Tuchman, Barbara W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394553330
- ISBN 13
- 9780394553337
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Keywords
- UNITED STATES, HISTORY AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775-1783-NAVAL OPERATIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. American;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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