The Dawn's Early Lightby Walter Lord | |
Category: |
"U.S. History - Military" |
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Pages: | 350 |
Year of Publication: | 1972 |
Date Added: | 08/08/2006 |
Date Read: | 09/23/1997 |
Notes: | Still the best account available of the two key battles of the War of 1812 ... the burning of Washington and the attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry that inspired the Francis Scott Key to write what would become our national anthem. Lord gives readers a dramatic account of how a new sense of national identity emerged from the smoky haze of what Francis Scott Key so lyrically called "the dawn's early light." |
My Rating: | 8 |