5/12/2023 0 Comments The first salute tuchman![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for The First Salute 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. 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 Americas 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. 8 pages of color, 8 pages of photos, 7 maps. ![]() ![]() About the Book Tuchman turns to America with a fresh new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to the American Nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution five years later-the moment that inaugurated the existence of a new nation, and announced the coming of a democratic age to the Old World. ![]()
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