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Pitch, Anthony S.

 
9781557504258: Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 (Bluejacket Books)
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ISBN 10: 1557504253 ISBN 13: 9781557504258
Editorial: Naval Institute Press, 2000

Sinopsis

With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account, Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story of the British invasion of Washington in the summer of 1814, an episode many call a defining moment in the coming-of-age of the United States. The British torched the Capitol, the White House, and many other public buildings, setting off an inferno that illuminated the countryside for miles and sending President James Madison scurrying out of town while his wife Dolley rescued a life-sized portrait of George Washington from the flames. The author's gripping narrative--hailed by a White House curator, a Senate historian, and the chairman of the National Geographic Society, among others--is filled with vivid details of the attack. Not confining his story to Washington, Pitch also describes the brave, resourceful defense of nearby Fort McHenry and tells how Francis Scott Key, a British hostage on a ship near the Baltimore harbor during the fort's bombardment, wrote a poem that became the national anthem.

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Acerca del autor

Anthony S. Pitch is the author of a number of books including The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814, a selection of the History Book Club and winner of the Arline Custer Memorial Prize and Maryland Historical Society's annual book award. He has been featured on outlets ranging from NPR to The History Channel to C-Span to Fox News and is a highly sought-after public speaker. A former journalist in England, Africa, and Israel, Pitch has been a broadcast editor for the Associated Press and a senior writer for US News and World Report's Books division. He lives in a Washington, DC, suburb.

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Editorial
Naval Institute Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1557504253
ISBN 13 
9781557504258
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
Contacto del fabricante
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