"The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution" Topic

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Tango01	27 Jun 2018 12:45 p.m. PST
"In The First Salute, one of America's consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. 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. 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. By turns lyrical and gripping,The First Salute is an exhilarating account of the birth of a nation…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
Pictors Studio	27 Jun 2018 1:50 p.m. PST
Odd review for a book so old it may pre-date the Declaration of Independence.
Editor in Chief Bill	27 Jun 2018 3:18 p.m. PST
I've read that one!
GonerGonerGoner	28 Jun 2018 7:24 a.m. PST
Barbara W. Tuchman died in 1989.
Winston Smith	28 Jun 2018 7:31 a.m. PST
Yes. It's a rather old book.
Tango01	28 Jun 2018 11:10 a.m. PST
But… is good or not? (smile) Amicalement Armand
Virginia Tory	02 Jul 2018 8:51 a.m. PST
Read it in 80s. Very tedious and seemed like an attempt to justify a role for the Netherlands they didn't have. Way overdone.
Winston Smith	02 Jul 2018 9:46 a.m. PST
She has another book, "The March of Folly", in which she tries to show how throughout history, governments often act against their own best interests. This isn't all that new, but she tries to show how this was staring them in the face all along, and that they acted knowing that. She starts with Troy and the Horse, then goes through the Renaissance popes, George III and the American Revolution up to Vietnam. The premise is the various "governments" knew all along that what they were doing was contrary to their interests. It's a forced argument at best. Cassandra was not "the government". Plenty of outsiders, and a few insiders, may have been uneasy. That's not the same thing as seeing the rocks and damning the torpedoes.

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