Download or read book The General s Wife An American Revolutionary Tale American Revolutionary Tales 1 written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English Lady and a handsome American Patriot in a battle for her heart – will she submit to the enemy? She had never been kissed before, had never known the wonderful sensations of a man’s lips and tongue tasting her own, of his hands clasping her body to press her more fully against his masculine form. It was extraordinarily delightful, but it was ever so wrong. Her hands flat on his chest, Clara tried to push him away. “Please, my lord, we are not engaged. This cannot be right.” Seduced Into Marriage Lady Clara Hastings is forced to leave her beloved England by her wicked husband, the infamous British general Lord Jeremy Strathmore. They arrive upon the shores of the uncivilized American colonies amidst the outbreak of that young nation’s struggle for independence. Kidnapped And Held For Ransom Among Strathmore’s enemies is a man Clara secretly desires. As his captive, she learns of her husband’s debauched pleasures and sadistic past, and discovers her own passions and sensual needs. A Quest For Freedom In the clutches of patriot fighters, Clara’s beliefs are challenged, her values are threatened, and she is caught up in a battle for her heart in the arms of a handsome American revolutionary. Epic Passion During the American Revolution The General’s Wife: An American Revolutionary Tale is a sweeping historical romance set in New York of 1777. This coming-of-age action romance follows a young woman’s adventure as she discovers new desires in rebel arms. The General’s Wife was a finalist for the Georgia Romance Writers’ 2014 Maggie Award for Excellence. Want more American Revolution romance? “Winter Interlude: An American Revolutionary Novelette” appearing in Naughty Chances: Take A Chance on Romance is a prequel and interquel companion piece to The General’s Wife: An American Revolutionary Tale. “Winter Interlude” delves into the bisexual relationship between Patriots Captain Samuel Taylor and Lieutenant Patrick Hamilton. Much of the action of “Winter Interlude” takes place in the gap between Chapter Twenty-Three and Chapter Twenty-Four of The General’s Wife.
Download or read book Winter Interlude An American Revolutionary Novelette American Revolutionary Tales 2 written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold winter’s night in 1778, two patriot soldiers recall their first sensual encounter and ponder their future together with the women they love. Winter’s icy weather is not the only chill to descend upon New York’s Fort Revolution in January of 1778. Discontent hangs heavy in the air between Lieutenant Patrick Hamilton and Captain Samuel Taylor during an evening’s respite from America’s war for independence. Reminiscing brings a realization of their emotional and physical connection to each other. Will memories be enough to rouse reconciliation? Winter Interlude: An American Revolutionary Novelette (American Revolutionary Tales Book 2) is a prequel and interquel companion story to The General’s Wife: An American Revolutionary Tale, delving into the relationship between Captain Samuel Taylor and Lieutenant Patrick Hamilton. Much of the action of Winter Interlude takes place in the gap between Chapter Twenty-Three and Chapter Twenty-Four of The General’s Wife. American Revolutionary Tales Book 1: The General’s Wife: An American Revolutionary Tale An English Lady and a handsome American Patriot in a battle for her heart – will she submit to the enemy? Book 2: Winter Interlude: An American Revolutionary Novelette On a cold winter’s night in 1778, two patriot soldiers recall their first sensual encounter and ponder their future together with the women they love. Coming soon! Book 3: The Viscount and the Veteran: An American Federalist Tale
Download or read book Imperial Warriors Two Scorching Tales of the Roman Empire written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2016-06-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Warriors... Muscles flexing under sun-burnished skin as thick arms wield swords, battle axes, or bow and arrow. Brawny, fierce, and intensely loyal to their cause, king, or god. Alpha heroes romanticized through the lens of history. ...of the Roman Empire Legions marching under the banner of Rome for centuries, conquering the Mediterranean and beyond, from Britannia in the West to Anatolia in the East. Imperial Warriors: Two Scorching Tales of the Roman Empire offers two sizzling tales of romance between warriors and the women who are inexorably drawn to them. Each story is set during a different time and place in the Roman Empire: Trajanic Rome and Byzantine Constantinople. The Promise of Memory A servant in Rome's imperial palace finds freedom in fantasies of a knight in the imperial guard--a warrior who evokes memories of a long lost love. Protecting Her A Byzantine noblewoman seeking refuge in a monastery loses her heart to an invader when Constantinople is sacked by the Viking Rus. "The Promise of Memory" and "Protecting Her" by best-selling historical romance author Regina Kammer, have been published separately before but are now available together for the first time. This mini-anthology includes bonus content from Regina Kammer: an excerpt from the Roman Imperial epic Hadrian and Sabina: A Love Story, an excerpt from the Parthian historical romance short story “An Unexpected Discovery”, plus an introductory essay. FIC027140 FICTION / Romance / Historical / Ancient World FIC027180 FICTION / Romance / Historical / Viking FIC027080 FICTION / Romance / Collections & Anthologies FIC027260 FICTION / Romance / Action & Adventure FIC027220 FICTION / Romance / Military FIC027150 FICTION / Romance / Historical / Medieval LCO017000 LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval LCO019000 LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors FIC029000 FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
Download or read book The General s Wife written by Regina Kammer and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seduced into marriage by the wicked British general Lord Strathmore, 19-year-old Clara is forced to leave her beloved England for the shores of the uncivilized American colonies upon the outbreak of that young nation's struggle for independence.Kidnapped and held captive by Strathmore's enemies, Clara learns of her husband's debauched pleasures and sadistic past, as well as her own sensual needs and erotic desires.When she falls into the hands of patriot fighters, her beliefs are challenged, her values are threatened, and Clara is caught up in a battle for her heart in the arms of a handsome American revolutionary.
Download or read book Disputed Boundaries A male male bisexual awakening enemies to lovers polyamorous historical romance Stories from the San Juan Islands written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British soldier and an American adventurer test the borders of desire in this steamy male-male, bisexual awakening, American historical romance by noted historical romance author Regina Kammer. San Juan Island, 1869 An international border dispute with no battles or skirmishes? The occupation of San Juan Island was proving to be Lieutenant Braxton Thorne’s most uneventful assignment as a British Royal Marine. Lack of military duties meant plenty of time to fool around with his fiancée, the widow Tilda Chisholm. American adventurer Gideon Roberts was just passing through San Juan Island on his way to his next job – and his next sexy guy. He could stay, work on a farm, but why? A free spirit craved new experiences, new places, new men. No reason to settle down. A chance encounter between Braxton and Gideon unleashes unfamiliar desires. Braxton has never been with a man. Gideon has never wanted to be with just one man. Now they find themselves in a war over the boundaries of their hearts. Disputed Boundaries is a male-male with bisexual awakening, enemies-to-lovers, polyamorous mmf, steamy Victorian historical romance. The story is set during the Pig War—the final conflict between the United States and Great Britain, a bloodless standoff over the boundary between Washington Territory and British Columbia. The novelette is part of Regina Kammer's Stories from the San Juan Islands collection of standalone short reads set in the San Juan Islands. Disputed Boundaries is a super hot romantic read with a happily ever after perfect for fans of gay historical romance by Merry Farmer, Keira Andrews, KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, and Alexis Hall, and fans of polyamory historicals by Nicola Davidson and Madelynne Ellis. Stories from the San Juan Islands * Undamaged ~ A contemporary m/f firefighter romance set on San Juan Island * Disputed Boundaries ~ A historical m/m/f romance set on San Juan Island in 1869 during the Pig War * “Orcas” ~ A steamy contemporary m/f short story set on Orcas Island All three stories are also available in one volume: The Stories from the San Juan Islands Collection
Download or read book Resistance A Common Elements Romance a steamy enemies to lovers contemporary seasoned romance written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Oil wants to frack his National Park. Their secret weapon to convince him? Leggy, blonde, and sexy as hell. Too bad her politics are all wrong. Kace Jaager, former Army archaeologist, now Superintendent of Fort America National Park, has a duty to preserve and protect the natural beauty and cultural heritage of the United States. Madison Danes, ambitious CEO of Danergy Mining & Hydraulics, has a government contract to conduct fracking on federal land at Fort America National Park. Passions flare as ideologies collide. Yet uncontrollable attraction compels a truce in bed. Opposites may attract, but can they put politics aside to form a more perfect union? Resistance is an enemies-to-lovers contemporary seasoned romance with a 53-year-old silver fox hero and a 42-year-old heroine in her prime. The novel is part of the Common Elements Romance Project, involving over seventy authors. Stories are not connected in any way except for having five elements in common: a lightning storm, lost keys, a haunted house, a stack of thick books, and a person named Max. Keywords: seasoned romance, romance later in life, enemies to lovers romance, sexy romance, steamy romance, wealthy heroine, rich heroine, millionaire heroine, CEO heroine, ex-military hero, park ranger hero, silver fox hero, veteran hero, ex-military hero, archaeologist hero, workplace romance, environmental issues in romance, political romance, contemporary romantic suspense
Download or read book Founding Mothers written by Cokie Roberts and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families -- and their country -- proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it. While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. Roberts brings us the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. While the men went off to war or to Congress, the women managed their businesses, raised their children, provided them with political advice, and made it possible for the men to do what they did. The behind-the-scenes influence of these women -- and their sometimes very public activities -- was intelligent and pervasive. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington -- proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might never have survived. Social history at its best, Founding Mothers unveils the drive, determination, creative insight, and passion of the other patriots, the women who raised our nation. Roberts proves beyond a doubt that like every generation of American women that has followed, the founding mothers used the unique gifts of their gender -- courage, pluck, sadness, joy, energy, grace, sensitivity, and humor -- to do what women do best, put one foot in front of the other in remarkable circumstances and carry on.
Download or read book Their Noble Deceit A Harwell Heirs Legacy Romance written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping up appearances requires unconventional measures… Percival Wood, the Marquess of Norrington, is expected to marry. Yet, Percival wants nothing more than to settle down with his paramour and best friend, Bertram Atherley, the Viscount Ravensburgh. Family debts require Lady Viola Pemberton to find a husband. Any wealthy man will do. However, Viola loves women, and is quite enamored in particular of the luscious Miss Penelope Hardcastle. After meeting at a ball, Percival and Viola agree to marry with a secret understanding: Each will let the other pursue their own heart’s true desire. A perfect arrangement. Until Percival’s father the duke presses the couple for a grandson. Despite valiant efforts, Percival and Viola are unable to perform as man and wife. Still, the couple must do their marital duty and produce an heir. Or make it appear as such. Their Noble Deceit is Book 6 in Regina Kammer’s Victorian romance Harwell Heirs series. This queer (MM, FF, BiMF) poly romance features an unusual marriage of convenience, a secret baby with a twist, and the revelation of long-held family secrets. Their Noble Deceit can be read as a stand-alone; however, the novel is enhanced by first reading The Pleasure Device (Book 1) and A Delicate Seduction (Book 4). The Harwell Heirs Victorian aristocracy has very strict rules concerning marital connections and familial obligations. But the Harwell heirs—Helena, Sophia, and Arthur—discover love doesn’t always follow the rules. Scandalous affairs force these scions of society to choose between duty and desire, deference and destiny. Book 1: The Pleasure Device Book 2: Disobedience By Design Book 3: Where Destiny Plays Harwell Heirs Legacy Romances Travel beyond England’s shores for these stories featuring beloved secondary characters from the first three books of the series. The Legacy novels delve into the romances of the friends, family, and intimates of the extended Harwell family. Book 4: A Delicate Seduction Book 5: Discovering Her Delight Book 6: Their Noble Deceit Keywords: Marriage of convenience romance (with a twist), Secret baby romance (with a twist), Medical romance, Polyamorous romance, Queer historical romance, Sapphic romance, Male-male romance, Achillean romance, Bisexual romance, Friends to lovers romance, Vacation romance, Aristocratic romance
Download or read book Discovering Her Delight written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wanted a kiss. She got an adventure. William Peel fancies himself a scholar of classical texts, and what better way to study such artifacts than on an archaeological expedition to Ottoman Turkey? And what better way to try and forget the beautiful – and unattainable – daughter of an earl than by pursuing his studies? Lady Beatrice Smythe has been granted all the freedoms the middle daughter of a Radical member of Parliament could want – including travel to far off lands to pursue her interest in archaeology and quench her thirst for adventure. Beatrice and William find themselves on the very same expedition – and find it difficult to keep their hands in the excavation pit and not on each other. After a discovery of historic proportions, the expedition becomes the target of a determined villain who has set his sights not just on precious artifacts, but on the virginal Beatrice. But archaeologists and academics are a determined lot when it comes to protecting that which is treasured… Discovering Her Delight: A Harwell Heirs Legacy Romance (Harwell Heirs Book 5) by Regina Kammer is a Victorian erotic romance with adventure, archaeology, and a surfeit of sensual exploration. The Harwell Heirs Victorian aristocracy has very strict rules concerning marital connections and familial obligations. But the Harwell heirs—Helena, Sophia, and Arthur—discover love doesn’t always follow the rules. Scandalous affairs force these scions of society to choose between duty and desire, deference and destiny. Book 1: The Pleasure Device Book 2: Disobedience By Design Book 3: Where Destiny Plays Harwell Heirs Legacy Romances Travel beyond England’s shores for these stories featuring beloved secondary characters from the first three books of the series. The Legacy novels delve into the romances of the friends, family, and intimates of the extended Harwell family. Book 4: A Delicate Seduction Book 5: Discovering Her Delight Book 6: Their Noble Deceit Keywords and tropes: Friends to lovers, First love, Exotic location, Scholarly gentleman hero, Virgin heroine, Adventure abroad, Victorian archaeological expedition, Dastardly villain, Kidnapping, Daring escape, Secrets uncovered, LGBTQ+ representation, archaeological temple site, Roman Emperor Hadrian, Antinous
Download or read book Where Destiny Plays Harwell Heirs Book 3 written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A choice between duty and desire… After a night of passion at Victorian England’s most notorious masquerade, Arthur Harwell knows he’s met the woman of his dreams. A wealthy viscountess with deep political connections, Lavinia is surely the perfect match for the future marquess. But tragedy has left Lavinia unable to provide Arthur with the one thing he needs: an heir. Must Arthur abandon true love to satisfy aristocratic obligations? A Vow Reconsidered Ever since a tragedy twenty years ago, Arthur Harwell, the Earl of Petersham, has vowed to never fall in love again—or marry. Yet a passionate encounter with a veiled woman at a masquerade inflames his hopes, and he is determined to find her. When he discovers the stranger is Lavinia, a woman for whom he already carries a torch, he is certain his future is settled. An Old Wound Widowed, wealthy, and well-connected, Lavinia, the Viscountess Foxley-Graham, has her pick of lovers, including the far too appealing Lord Petersham. Yet a disastrous affair twenty years prior left her heartbroken and wary. She fights her demons to allow herself to fall in love with Arthur. A Doomed Attraction But disaster looms anew. As heir to the Marquessate of Richmond, Arthur is required to marry—and produce an heir. Lavinia’s scandalous liaison left her with more than just sorrow—she was rendered barren. Can Arthur reconcile familial duty with the needs of the heart? Where Destiny Plays was previously published in 2015. It has been reedited with minor revisions and has a new cover. The Harwell Heirs Victorian aristocracy has very strict rules concerning marital connections and familial obligations. But the Harwell heirs—Helena, Sophia, and Arthur—discover love doesn’t always follow the rules. Scandalous affairs force these scions of society to choose between duty and desire, deference and destiny. Book 1: The Pleasure Device Book 2: Disobedience By Design Book 3: Where Destiny Plays
Download or read book A Delicate Seduction written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is patient…but desire is demanding Percival Wood, the Marquess of Norrington, is free. His former lover Jack—a blackguard and a brute—is dead. Percival no longer needs to hide. While his father insists Percival take the opportunity to rejoin Society, Percival has other plans. He wants to get away, far away from the traumas of his past. For years, Bertram Atherley, the Viscount Ravensburgh, had waited on the sidelines, helpless while his cousin Jack had been a cruel beast to his boyhood chum Percival. Now Jack was dead, and Bertram is eager to resume his friendship with Percival. This time, though, Bertram feels something more than mere camaraderie. At Percival’s behest the two set off on a Grand Tour of sorts, a journey from England to Italy and France. While abroad, friendship blossoms into something more. But trauma and pain have a way of reasserting themselves no matter where one may go. For Percival, intimacy with Bertram dredges up old wounds. Yet Bertram has waited so long for a chance to woo his boyhood crush and his patience is running out. Will the two be able to overcome inner struggles and embark on a future together in each other’s arms? A Delicate Seduction is Book 4 in Regina Kammer’s Victorian erotic romance Harwell Heirs series. The story takes place in 1879, at the same time as Book 1, and is a male-male slow-burn, childhood friends-to-lovers, vacation abroad, historical romance. Interwoven with the romance is a story-within-a-story featuring a pirate hunter and his trusty mate. A Delicate Seduction can be read as a stand-alone; however, the novel is enhanced by first reading The Pleasure Device. The Harwell Heirs Victorian aristocracy has very strict rules concerning marital connections and familial obligations. But the Harwell heirs—Helena, Sophia, and Arthur—discover love doesn’t always follow the rules. Scandalous affairs force these scions of society to choose between duty and desire, deference and destiny. Book 1: The Pleasure Device Book 2: Disobedience By Design Book 3: Where Destiny Plays Harwell Heirs Legacy Romances Travel beyond England’s shores for these stories featuring beloved secondary characters from the first three books of the series. The Legacy novels delve into the romances of the friends, family, and intimates of the extended Harwell family. Book 4: A Delicate Seduction Book 5: Discovering Her Delight Book 6: Their Noble Deceit Keywords: Male-Male romance, Historical male-male romance, Victorian romance, gay romance, Slow burn romance, Friends to lovers romance, Childhood friends to lovers romance, Vacation romance, Hero with emotional scars
Download or read book Guns for General Washington written by Seymour Reit and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seymour Reit re-creates the true story of Will Knox, a nineteen-year-old boy who undertook the daring and dangerous task of transporting 183 cannons from New York's Fort Ticonderoga to Boston--in the dead of winter--to help George Washington win an important battle.
Download or read book Glory Passion and Principle written by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroism of the females of the American Revolution has gone from memory with the generation that witnessed it, and nothing, absolutely nothing, remains upon the ear of the young of the present day. -- Charles Francis Adams John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin -- these are the names we typically associate with the American Revolution. But was American History solely written by men? Were there no influential women? No women who had an impact on the founding of America in its crucial, formative years, in its fight for independence? Indeed, there were -- although their contributions have been overlooked or ignored for over two hundred years. Until now. Glory, Passion, and Principle is an extraordinary journey through revolutionary America as seen from a woman's perspective. Here are the lesser-known stories of eight influential females who fought for freedom -- for their country and themselves -- at all costs. Whether advising prominent male leaders in political theory (Abigail Adams), using their pens as swords (Phillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren), acting as military spies (Sybil Ludington, Lydia Darragh), or going to battle (Molly Pitcher, Deborah Sampson, Nancy Ward), these women broke free of the limitations imposed upon them, much as our forefathers did by resisting British rule upon American soil...and laying the groundwork for the United States as we know it today.
Download or read book Women s Letters written by Lisa Grunwald and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Thurgood Marshall written by Juan Williams and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice, from the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize “Magisterial . . . in Williams’ richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel.”—Jack E. White, Time Thurgood Marshall was the twentieth century’s great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the landmark Supreme Court case outlawing school segregation in the United States, would have made him a historic figure even if he had never been appointed as the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court. He had a fierce will to change America, which led to clashes with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and Robert F. Kennedy. Most surprising was Marshall’s secret and controversial relationship with the FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. Based on eight years of research and interviews with over 150 sources, Thurgood Marshall is the sweeping and inspirational story of an enduring figure in American life who rose from the descendants of slaves to become an American hero.
Download or read book The British Are Coming written by Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling. Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama.
Download or read book Inventing the Modern American Family written by Isabel Heinemann and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to the overarching processes of social change of that period. By combining long-term approaches with innovative analysis, Inventing the "Modern American Family" transcends not only the classical dichotomies between women's studies and masculinity studies, but also contribute substantially to the history of gender and culture in the United States.
