Author: Steven KrollPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590450553
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Chronicles the story of how Francis Scott Key came to write the United States' national anthem.
By the Dawn's Early Light
Author: Steven KrollPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590450553
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Chronicles the story of how Francis Scott Key came to write the United States' national anthem.
The Dawn's Early Light
Author: Walter LordPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453238484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A riveting account of America’s second war with England, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the great powers of Western Europe treated the United States like a disobedient child. Great Britain blocked American trade, seized its vessels, and impressed its sailors to serve in the Royal Navy. America’s complaints were ignored, and the humiliation continued until James Madison, the country’s fourth president, declared a second war on Great Britain. British forces would descend on the young United States, shattering its armies and burning its capital, but America rallied, and survived the conflict with its sovereignty intact. With stunning detail on land and naval battles, the role Native Americans played in the hostilities, and the larger backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this is the story of the turning points of this strange conflict, which inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” and led to the Era of Good Feelings that all but erased partisan politics in America for almost a decade. It was in 1812 that America found its identity and first assumed its place on the world stage. By the author of A Night to Remember, the classic account of the sinking of the Titanic—which was not only made into a 1958 movie but also led director James Cameron to use Lord as a consultant on his epic 1997 film—as well as acclaimed volumes on Pearl Harbor (Day of Infamy) and the Battle of Midway (Incredible Victory), this is a fascinating look at an oft-forgotten chapter in American history.
Dawn's Early Light
Author: Elswyth ThanePublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613738153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Elswyth Thane is best-known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series. In it, colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Thane centers her novel around four major characters: the aristrocratic St. John Sprague, who becomes George Washington's aide; Regina Greensleeves, a Virginia beauty spoilt by a season in London; Julian Day, a young schoolmaster who arrives from England on the eve of the war and thought of himself as a Tory; and Tibby Mawes, one of his less fortunate pupils, saddled with an alcoholic father and an indigent mother. But we also see Washington, Jefferson, Lafayette, Greene, Patrick Henry, Francis Marion, and the rest of that brilliant galaxy not as historical figures but as men and women. We see de Kalb's gallant death under a cavalry charge at Camden. We penetrate Marion's swamp-encircled stronghold on the Peedee. We watch the cat-and-mouse game between Cornwallis and Lafayette. Dawn's Early Light is the human story behind our first war for liberty, and of the men and women loving and laughing through it to the dawn of a better world.
Dawn's Early Light
Author: Pip BallantinePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101621451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Working for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, one sees innumerable technological wonders. But even veteran agents Braun and Books are unprepared for what the electrifying future holds in the third novel in the steampunk adventure series. After being ignominiously shipped out of England following their participation in the Janus affair, Braun and Books are ready to prove their worth as agents. But what starts as a simple mission in the States—intended to keep them out of trouble—suddenly turns into a scandalous and convoluted case that has connections reaching as far as Her Majesty the Queen. Even with the help of two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and the Metaphysical, Braun and Books have their work cut out for them as their chief suspect in a rash of nautical and aerial disasters is none other than Thomas Edison. Between the fantastic electric machines of Edison, the eccentricities of MoPO consultant Nikola Tesla, and the mysterious machinations of a new threat known only as the Maestro, they may find themselves in far worse danger than they ever have been in before…
And That's the Way It Was... by Dawn's Early Light
Author: Trent C. YoungPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411641876
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This work is an accounting of our governments return to Vietnam in 1973 to execute 963 American soldiers that were AWOL and deserters. It is an expose of a government that lied to the American people, and the story of what makes a person capable of executing fellow Americans and living with knowledge for over thirty years.This book is for those that have asked questions about what happened to the named and unnamed soldiers who were unaccounted for after the Vietnam War. Those soldiers that are listed as Missing in Action, Killed in Action, or Prisoners of War, who are really in a mass grave just outside of Saigon, Vietnam.
Dawn's Early Light
Author: Nancy KrulikPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416940782
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Twenty-four hours. That's all the time Sarah has to tell Tim everything. With the usual end-of-school festivities, then all the packing and preparation, it's been so hard to put her feelings into words. She needs to tell him how proud she is of his dedication and courage. How much she'll miss him. How she wants him to go off and be the soldier of his dreams, but come home soon so they can begin the future of hers. Then disaster strikes, and Sarah is not sure she can tell Tim any of it. With only twenty-four hours left before he ships off, she's not even sure she can say good-bye.
By Dawn's Early Light
Author: David HagbergPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765343789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
From the "USA Today" bestselling author of "Joshua's Hammer" comes a story of a world on the brink of war and the Navy SEALs sent on a special mission to prevent a nuclear holocaust.
By Dawn's Early Light
Author: Philip ShelbyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780671013943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Financial analyst Sloane Ryder becomes unwittingly embroiled in a political agenda involving America's increasingly sensitive relationship with China, as she uncovers a scheme to kill the first woman president of the United States.
By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Author: Merle Curti Professor Emeritus of History Paul BoyerPublisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
ISBN: 9781628201208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A study on the effect of the nuclear bomb and the threat of nuclear war on the collective American consciousness.
By the Dawn's Early Light
Author: Karen AckermanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780026859004
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A young girl and her brother stay with their grandmother while their mother works at night.