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George Washington: Gentleman Warrior
Author: Stephen Burgen
Price: £30.00
Published by: Quercus
Date Available: 07 June 2012
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Stephen Brumwell's new biography focuses on the side of Washington that is so often overlooked. The feisty young frontier officer and the tough forty-something commander of the Continental army, not the venerated elder statesman of the Republic, champing self-consciously on his hippo teeth. It examines Washington's long and varied military career, tracing his evolution as a soldier, and his changing attitude to the waging of war. Ironically, it shows how Washington's reliance upon English models of 'gentlemanly' behaviour, and on British military organisation, was crucial in forging the army that won American independence.
Washington is a vivid recounting of the life and military career of 'The Father of his Country', following his journey from heart-racing border skirmishes with the French and their Indian allies to his remarkable victory over the British Empire, an achievement that underpinned his selection as the first president of the United States of America. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including original archival research, Stephen Brumwell paints a compelling and challenging portrait of this extraordinary man.
About the Author
Dr Stephen Brumwell is an award-winning freelance writer and independent historian based in Amsterdam. After gaining a First in History, Brumwell was awarded British Academy funding to research eighteenth-century North America. His doctoral dissertation was published as Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas 1755-63. Brumwell has since published White Devil: A True Story of Savagery, War and Vengeance in Colonial America and Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe.
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Cover Type: Hardback
ISBN: 978-1849165464
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