Presents the story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. This book tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. It features a cast of amazing characters from George III to George Washington, to soldiers and their families.

A Pulitzer-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of America: Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison and Washington. It argues that the checks and balances permitting the infant republic to endure were primarily rooted in the interaction of leaders with diverse values.

A true story of Washington Crossing the Delaware - how George Washington saved the faltering American Revolution with daring attack at Christmas 1776.

Bailyn has added an essay Fulfillment to the original text as a postscript. Here he discusses the debate on the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution.

Set in Boston, in the year 1775 - raised by a society of rational philosophers, who call each other by a number, Octavian and his mother - a princess in exile from a faraway land - are the only people in their household assigned names. The boy, young Octavian, begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies.

The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society - free from corruption and cronyism - which remains inspiring today.

This portrait of Benjamin Frankin's public and private life also examines American and European political history of the time. The author examines the run up to the Revolutionary War, the relations between Britain, France and the colonies and the events that led to America's independence.

It is America, 1772 - it is only a few years before the war of independence and the colony seethes with unrest. Jamie Fraser receives a message from Governor Josiah Martin. He wants Jamie's help to keep the backcountry safe for King and Crown. But Jamie knows what's to come.

In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George ...

In 1771, at the age of 65, Benjamin Franklin sat down to write his autobiography, having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity. The result is a classic of American literature.

'An elegant, concise and lucid summary of the Revolution's origins, the war itself, and the social and political changes wrought by the struggle for American independence' WALL STREET JOURNAL

Six months after America declared her independence, Congress dispatched Benjamin Franklin to France to solicit aid and arms for the upcoming fight. This work tells a tale of international intrigue and from it emerges a portrait of a brilliant man, as well as a sense of the fragility and improvisation of his country's bid for independence.

Exiled from his beloved Scotland, Jamie Fraser is at last possessed of the land he has longed for. His wife, Claire is blessed with the gift of the knowledge of what is to come. In the past, that knowledge has brought danger and deliverance to them. Now it could be a flickering torch that will light their way through the perilous years ahead.

Set in 1776, against the backdrop of the American struggle for independence, this powerful novel is also an incredible adventure about one girl's struggle for freedom in a society in which she is considered someone else's property.

From 1775 to 1781, the Royal Welch Fusiliers fought furiously to uphold British rule in America. This book tells the story of that campaign.

Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves. In this second volume of 'The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing', Octavian and Doctor Trefusis escape to Virginia where Octavian joins up with Lord Dunmore's troops, following the famous proclamation promising to liberate any slave that will fight the British in the Revolutionary war. While there, Octavian reunites with Bono, fights ..

Examines the Native American experience during the American Revolution.

Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America has been recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost political pamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate the political, intellectual, and social history of the American Revolution.