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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: people's war
    sub title: original voices of the American Revolution
  name:
    name part: Rae, Noel (Noel Martin Douglas)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 614 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The People's War is the story of one of history's great events, the American Revolutionary War, told almost entirely in the words of the soldiers who fought it and the civilians who endured it. Drawing on thousands of original sources, including diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and pension applications, the author Noel Rae has culled the most colorful and vivid passages and woven them into a vibrant, eyewitness narrative that takes us from the peaceful days before the Stamp Act, through all the war's major events, and ends with farewell accounts of what happened in later life to the people we have come to know along the way. Some of these figures, like Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams and King George III, are familiar figures, but most were ordinary people, little known to history, but here briefly emerging from obscurity, including a farm boy who ran away to sea at the age of twelve, a pretty young widow roughed up by Tory ruffians and a slave who escaped to the British after witnessing his mother being flogged. These are but a few of those whose collective voices, drawn from all sides of the conflict, bring the Revolution truly to life in a history at its most entertaining and authoritative, for who better qualified to tell what happened than the people who were there?
  table of contents: The mother country -- Boston and New England -- New York and Saratoga -- Pennsylvania and the Frontier -- At sea and overseas -- The south and Yorktown -- Aftermath.
  target audience: general
  note: Noel Rae.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-599) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
    topic: Causes
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
    genre: Sources
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
    genre: Personal narratives
  classification: 973.3
  identifier: 9780762770700 (hdbk.) :
  identifier: 0762770708 (hdbk.) :
  record info:
    record content source: VPW
    record creation date: 111011
    record change date: 20151202145040.0
    record identifier: in00002690574