The Forgotten History of America
Author(s): Cormac O'Brien
These stories put America's early history in perspective and help the reader understand in new, fresh ways the emergence of the American nation. For example, few people realise that the first permanent settlement on American soil was not Jamestown or Plymouth, but the Spanish town of St. Augustine in Florida. Or that an atrocity committed by George Washington in the Pennsylvania woods in 1754 set off a world war between England and France. Or that the successful siege of a Canadian fort by an untrained group of New Englanders was a key step leading to the American Revolution.
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"Set against a grand landscape that inspires both awe and terror, The Forgotten History of America depicts a continent emerging as both a bloody battleground between Native Americans and Europeans and a place where alien cultures began to mesh. This is the history they left out of the textbooks--thanks to Cormac O'Brien, the forgotten history of America will be forgotten no more." "--""Joseph Cummins"", author of "The World's Bloodiest History" and "The War Chronicles: From Flintlocks to Machine Guns""""
Cormac O'Brien is an author and has been a guest on many radio programs.
General Fields
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- : Quiver
- : Quiver
- : 0.889
- : 01 October 2008
- : 214mm X 194mm X 25mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Cormac O'Brien
- : Paperback
- : 973.2
- : 304
- : 125 colour photographs
