Rise to rebellion / Jeff Shaara.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2002Edition: First Mass Market editionDescription: xxiii, 548 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0345452062 [newsprint]Subject(s): Revolution, American -- Fiction | United States -- Fiction. -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783Genre/Form: Historical fiction. | War storiesSummary: Summary: In Rise to Rebellion, acclaimed author Jeff Shaara brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation - from idealistic attorney John Adams to audacious inventor and philosopher Ben Franklin; from Thomas Gage, the British general given the impossible task of crushing a colonial rebellion, to George Washington, the dashing Virginian who took command of a colonial army. Jeff Shaara's most impressive achievement, Rise to Rebellion reveals how philosophers became fighters, how ideas became their ammunition, and how a scattered group of colonies became the United States of America.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Summary: In Rise to Rebellion, acclaimed author Jeff Shaara brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation - from idealistic attorney John Adams to audacious inventor and philosopher Ben Franklin; from Thomas Gage, the British general given the impossible task of crushing a colonial rebellion, to George Washington, the dashing Virginian who took command of a colonial army. Jeff Shaara's most impressive achievement, Rise to Rebellion reveals how philosophers became fighters, how ideas became their ammunition, and how a scattered group of colonies became the United States of America.
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