![]() “ tightly woven narrative, ingeniously structured. A persuasive book, which brings us entertaining pictures, scenes and characters.” - Chicago Tribune “Tuchman writes narrative history in the great tradition. It is only part of Tuchman’s genius that she can reconstitute such scenes with so much precision and passion.” - People The first salute Bookreader Item Preview. Editions for The First Salute: 1842121774 (Paperback published in 2000), (Kindle Edition published in 2011), 0345336674 (Paperback published in 1989), 03. The coverage of events in America is almost tangential to the story Tuchman has to tell. “Nothing in a novel could be more thrilling than the moment in this glorious history when French soldiers arrive see a tall, familiar figure: George Washington. Barbara Tuchman’s First Salute: A View of The American Revolution is a look at the American War of Independence from an external perspective. By turns lyrical and gripping, The First Salute is an exhilarating account of the birth of a nation. She sheds new light on the key role played by the contending navies, paints a magnificent portrait of George Washington, and recounts in riveting detail the decisive campaign of the war at Yorktown. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland, demonstrating how the aid to the American colonies of both these nations made the triumph of independence possible. ![]() ![]() In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. ![]()
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