Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Catalog of Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Washington's Spies
Author: Alexander RosePublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 055339259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Turn: Washington’s Spies, now an original series on AMC Based 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 code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all. In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperately needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy’s battle plans and military strategy. Washington’s small band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him retire but who always came through in the end. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’ t spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deception—and proved an adept spymaster. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. The British secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped by the closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and invisible ink. Rose’s thrilling narrative tells the unknown story of the Revolution–the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners—that has never appeared in the history books. But Washington’s Spies is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.
Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family
Author: John Bearse NewcombLife and Correspondence of H. Knox
Author: Francis Samuel DRAKEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Travels in New-England and New-York
Author: Timothy DwightThe French Revolution
Author: Thomas CarlyleNooks and Corners of the New England Coast
Author: Samuel Adams DrakePublisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Our Todays and Yesterdays
Author: Margaret Davis CatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brunswick (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Backcountry Revolutionary
Author: William T. GravesPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 098599990X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Biography of Col. James Williams, 1740-1780, the highest ranking officer who died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) during the American Revolutionary War.
Register and Manual - State of Connecticut
Author: Connecticut. Secretary of the StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description