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Midnight Rising

John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

Horwitz, Tony

Midnight Rising

Midnight Rising

John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

Midnight Rising

 

Chronicles the 1859 raid by radical abolitionist John Brown on Harpers Ferry, revealing how his acts, deemed terrorism by the South, prompted a counterattack by Robert E. Lee and galvanized Northern supporters during Lincoln's election campaign

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ISBN
9780805091533
Pagina's
365
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Henry Holt & Co

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The story of how the post-war Labour government under Clement Attlee re-fashioned Britain is a familiar one. This is the alternative story of how the Conservatives envisioned Britain's post-war future, revealing the bold, at times utopian, plans that British Conservatives drew up for Britain and the post-war world.

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