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100	1		_aFerling, John E. _96160
245	1	0	_aAlmost a miracle : _bthe American victory in the War of Independence / _cJohn Ferling.
260			_aNew York ; _aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2009.
300			_axiii, 679 p. : _bill., maps. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: 2007.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [653]-661) and index.
505			_a "My country, my honor, my life" : bravery and death in war -- pt. 1. Going to war, 1775-1776. "Fear is not an American art" : the coming of the war -- "A loss that is greater than we can bear" : going to war -- Choices, 1775 -- pt. 2. The war in the North, 1776-1779. "Hastening fast to a crisis" : June 1775-June 1776 -- Choices, 1776 -- "Knock him up for the campaign" : the Battle for New York, 1776 -- "This hour of adversity" : to the end of 1776 -- Choices, 1777 -- "The caprice of war" : America's pivotal victory at Saratoga -- "We rallied and broke" : the Campaign for Philadelphia, September-December 1777 -- Choices, 1778 -- "A respectable army" : the grim year, 1778 -- Choices, 1779 -- "A band of brotherhood" : the soldiers, the army, and the forgotten war in 1779 -- "We have occasioned a good deal of terror" : the war at sea -- Choices, 1780 -- pt. 3. The war in the South, 1780-1781. "A year filled with our disgraces" : defeat in the South, 1780 -- "Southern means and Southern exertions" : hope and despair, June-December 1780 -- Choices, 1781 -- "Bloody and severe" : the pivotal Southern war, early 1781-- "We are suspended in the balance" : Spring and Summer 1781-- pt. 4. American victory, 1781-1783. "America is ours" : victory at Yorktown, 1781 -- Choices, 1782 -- "May we have peace in our time" : peace and demobilization, 1782-1783 -- "Little short of a miracle" : accounting for America's victory.
520			_aIn this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, an award-winning historian transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication.
586			_aNew York American Revolutionary Round Table Best Book of 2007
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bContinental Army. _96565
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bContinental Army _xMilitary life. _96566
650		0	_aGenerals _zUnited States _vBiography. _96567
650		0	_aSoldiers _zUnited States _xHistory _y18th century. _96568
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _xCampaigns. _96162
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783 _vBiography. _96569
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1775-1783. _96570
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