He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Another winner from Tuchman-superbly readable, thoroughly researched.Įlie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children. The result, as she moves on to describe Washington's 500-mile march from New York to Virginia and the Battle of Yorktown, is American history seen from the outside in-a fresh and ultimately dazzling perspective whose skillful arrangement is matched only by the sure scholarship on which it is based.
Concentrating in the first half of her book almost exclusively on the European side of things, Tuchman describes three non-Americans-English Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, English General Lord Cornwallis, and French Admiral de Grasse-who were at least as influential on the final outcome of the Revolution as the Founding Fathers. In this case, the goal is the Battle of Yorktown, which Tuchman considers the decisive conclusion of events rooted as deeply in international problems in Europe as in relations between Great Britain and her colonies: the Dutch and English trade wars, hostilities between England and France, political conflicts in England, the condition of the English nà vy in the 18th century.
Tuchman's great talent, the gift that distinguishes her from so many otherwise capable historians, is her ability to write history as intellectual narrative, to weave dense, interlocking facts into an ever-growing framework that is not necessarily chronological but which always ends up precisely where it is supposed to go. Urn:oclc:824183384 Scandate 20100311230854 Scanner her usual grace and sweep, the author of A Distant Mirror, The Proud Tower, and The Guns of August describes the American Revolution from the European point of view. O元378542W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.83 Pages 396 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:129923061X Urn:lcp:firstsalute00tuch:epub:e3b85af1-40ce-4dcb-95f7-072f9bd31cd4 Extramarc University of Michigan Foldoutcount 0 Identifier firstsalute00tuch Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4qj82p6n Isbn 0394553330Ġ8045216 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition
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