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  • The Narrative of Colonel David Fanning: A Tory in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain, Giving an Account of His Adventures in North Carolina

    by David Fanning ...
    Colonel David Fanning's autobiographical narrative offers one of the most vivid and controversial accounts of the American Revolutionary War from the Loyalist perspective. Fanning, a fierce and fearless Tory leader in the Southern theater of the war, orchestrated numerous raids, battles, and prisoner rescues throughout North and South Carolina. His guerrilla tactics and lightning-fast attacks ... Read more

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  • Standing on the Ocean: A Layman's Arctic Adventure

    by David Fanning ...
    Expressing the vague desire to "get out of town," and searching for adventure, David Fanning unexpectedly finds himself on thin ice 125 miles off-shore of Deadhorse, Alaska, taking orders from an 18-year-old girl, and being tormented by the silly songs and puns of the eccentric scientist who leads the small oceanographic research team he has been hired to help. This funny, detailed, and insightful ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945

    Propaganda, Myth and Reality

    Edited by David Fanning, Erik Levi ...
    Series series Routledge Music Handbooks
    Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control or were subject to severe scrutiny and censorship, the prime objective being to change the musical fabric of these ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich

    Edited by Pauline Fairclough, David Fanning ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    As the Soviet Union's foremost composer, Shostakovich's status in the West has always been problematic. Regarded by some as a collaborator, and by others as a symbol of moral resistance, both he and his music met with approval and condemnation in equal measure. The demise of the Communist state has, if anything, been accompanied by a bolstering of his reputation, but critical engagement with his ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America’s survival in the hands of George ... Read more

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  • Washington's Spies

    The Story of America's First Spy Ring

    by Alexander Rose ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMCBased on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and ... Read more

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  • A World on Fire

    Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

    by Amanda Foreman ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER10 BEST BOOKS • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • 2011**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The New Yorker • Chicago Tribune • The Economist • Nancy Pearl, NPR • Bloomberg.com • Library Journal • Publishers WeeklyIn this brilliant narrative, Amanda Foreman tells the fascinating story of the American Civil War—and the major role played by... ... Read more

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  • The American Revolution

    An Intimate History

    by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly illustrated, human-centered history of America’s founding struggle—expanding on the landmark, six-part PBS series“From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen not to be extinguished.” —Thomas PaineIn defeating the British Empire and giving ... Read more

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  • The Indispensables

    The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware

    by Patrick K. O'Donnell ...
    The acclaimed combat historian and author of The Unknowns details the history of the Marbleheaders and their critical role in the Revolutionary War.On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation after losing the Battle of Brooklyn. The British had trapped George Washington's army against the East River, and the fate of the Revolution rested upon the soldier ... Read more

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  • Turncoat

    Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty

    by Stephen Brumwell ...
    A historian examines how a once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause became its most dishonored traitor.General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold's defection came as ... Read more

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  • Black Loyalists

    Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

    by Ruth Holmes Whithead ...
    "Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history." —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My NameIn an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women ... Read more

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  • Great American Lives

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams

    by Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams, Benjamin Franklin ...
    Brilliant, captivating, and unforgettable memoirs from four of the greatest minds in American history.Penned between 1771 and 1790 and published after his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most acclaimed and widely read personal histories ever written. From his youth as a printer's assistant working for his brother's Boston newspaper through his own publishing, writing, ... Read more

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