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Few Acres of Snow, A

By: John Wiley & Sons

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (John Wiley & Sons)


Product Info

Title
Few Acres of Snow, A
Publisher
Category
Author
Robert Leckie
Publish Year
1999
Pages
388
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1.5"
NKG Part #
2148036992
Type
Softcover

Description

With his celebrated sense of drama and eye for colorful detail, acclaimed military historian Robert Leckie charts the long, savage conflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy in pre-Revolutionary America. Packed with sharply etched profiles of all the major players-including George Washington, Samuel de Champlain, William Pitt, Edward Braddock, Count Frontenac, James Wolfe, Thomas Gage, and the nobly vanquished Marquis de Montcalm-this panoramic history chronicles the four great colonial wars: the War of the Grand Alliance (King William's War), the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War), the War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War), and the decisive French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War). Leckie not only provides perspective on exactly how the New World came to be such a fiercely contested prize in Western Civilization, but also shows us exactly why we speak English today instead of French-and reminds us how easily things might have gone the other way.