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Washington's Crossing is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by David Hackett Fischer and part of the "Pivotal Moments in American History" series. It is primarily about George Washington's leadership during the 1776 campaign of the American Revolutionary War, culminating with George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and the subsequent campaign, with the Battle of Trenton, the ...
"Even if you escape the torment of history, you will not be able to escape the wrath of Allah." — Hasan Bitmez, Turkish MP (12 December 2023), after calling on the wrath of God on the State of Israel in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey before collapsing due to a heart attack. He would die two days later. [133]
Horribly Huge Press-Out-and-Build Book: Terry Deary Horribly Hilarious Joke Book: Who's Horrible in History: The Horrible History of Britain and Ireland: 2010 Frightfully Funny Quiz Book: Deadly Days in History: 2013 The Beastly Best Bits: The Big Fat Christmas Book: 2014 Top 50 Kings & Queens: 2015 Top 50 Villains: 2016 This is a Horrible Book ...
So many atrocities throughout history; Mao’s Great Chinese Famine probably took the most lives in recorded history: between 20 and 55 million [people died], with the most common estimate being ...
Dear Canada is a series of historical novels for children, published by Scholastic Canada and popular in school libraries and classrooms. [1] Each text explores significant events in Canadian history through the eyes of a female child. [1] First published in 2001, they are similar to the Dear America series.
Though Burr (1973) is the second book published in the series, it is first chronologically, taking placed in 1775–1808, 1833–1836, and 1840. [2] [3] In the novel, set during the politically contentious era of the Jackson administration, an elderly and active Aaron Burr recounts his experiences of the Revolutionary War and America's Founding Fathers to a young law clerk secretly working for ...
The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books illustrated with color artwork or black and white photographs was introduced in the 1960s as Landmark Giant, which would continue releasing new titles beyond the end of the main series until 1974 ...
The Times Literary Supplement as true of most other reviews, criticized Bates for turning 'the Battle of Britain into a gay summer frolic in a pastoral setting.' [1] Dean R. Baldwin in his book H.E. Bates: A Literary Life writes 'the novel is a slender story centring on Elizabeth, her grandmother, her silly uncle, half a dozen pilots, and one ...