Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War - Rilegato

Burrows, Edwin G.

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ISBN 10: 0465008356 ISBN 13: 9780465008353

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2008

Riassunto

Offers a look at the atrocious conditions that the American soldiers had to endure after being taken prisoner by the British during the Revolutionary War and forced into a crowded POW camp in New York City where they were left to starve, resulting in more recorded deaths there than in battle.

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Recensione:

Washington Post Book World
“[A] pathbreaking examination of the treatment of American prisoners during the Revolutionary War... Burrows's book is a landmark whose significance far outweighs recent, popular biographies of the Founding Fathers. His sparkling prose, meticulous research and surprising findings recast our understanding of how the new nation was brought forth... Burrows masterfully explores a subject that had been left nearly untouched for more than two centuries.”

Seattle Times
“[Burrows] offers riveting accounts of what prison life was like in New York...It is as if, more than 200 years later, fitting tribute has finally been paid.”

L'autore:

Edwin G. Burrows is Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History, and has received awards also from the Municipal Art Society, the St. Nicholas Society, and the New York Society Library, among others. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani named him a “Centennial Historian of New York.” For the past five years Burrows has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and he serves on the board of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Manhattan. He lives in Northport, New York.

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• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0465008356
• ISBN 13: 9780465008353
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 364