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Band of Giants (Paperback)
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Band of Giants (Paperback)
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List price R444
Loot Price R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
You Save R60 (14%)
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Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our
independence. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men
like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of
the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men
were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war. We
know Fort Knox, but what about Henry Knox, the burly Boston
bookseller who took over the American artillery at the age of 25?
Eighteen counties in the United States commemorate Richard
Montgomery, but do we know that this revered martyr launched a
full-scale invasion of Canada? The soldiers of the Revolution were
a diverse lot: merchants and mechanics, farmers and fishermen,
paragons and drunkards. Most were ardent amateurs. Even George
Washington, assigned to take over the army around Boston in 1775,
consulted books on military tactics. Band of Giants vividly
captures the fraught condition of the war-the bitterly divided
populace, the lack of supplies, the repeated setbacks on the
battlefield, and the appalling physical hardships. That these
inexperienced warriors could take on and defeat the superpower of
the day was one of the remarkable feats in world history.
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