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The Dawn´s Early Light
Walter Lord
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Description for The Dawn´s Early Light
Paperback. Sheads, a National Park Service ranger and specialist on the event, introduces the book, which will remain a popular favorite for years to come. Series: Maryland Paperback Bookshelf. Num Pages: 400 pages, 29, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic, and then set their sights on Baltimore, home port to some of the most rapacious American privateers on the high seas. In "The Dawn's Early Light", Walter Lord captures these events during the War of 1812. A native Baltimorean, Lord wrote with great force and feeling of the subsequent defense of Fort McHenry, the circumstances of Francis Scott Key's writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the rebirth of a young country. Students consider this book to be one ... Read more
In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic, and then set their sights on Baltimore, home port to some of the most rapacious American privateers on the high seas. In "The Dawn's Early Light", Walter Lord captures these events during the War of 1812. A native Baltimorean, Lord wrote with great force and feeling of the subsequent defense of Fort McHenry, the circumstances of Francis Scott Key's writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the rebirth of a young country. Students consider this book to be one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405476
SKU
V9781421405476
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Walter Lord
Walter Lord (1917-2002) was an American author best known for his documentary-style nonfiction account A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Scott S. Sheads is a National Park Service Ranger/Historian at Fort McHenry.
Reviews for The Dawn´s Early Light
Still the best account available of the two key battles of the War of 1812... brings the 1814 battles around Washington and Baltimore to life, making them seem terrifying and critical, as they must have seemed to Marylanders at the time. Baltimore City Paper One of the very best books on the War of 1812 ever written.
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