The Dawn's Early Light (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) - Softcover

Lord, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801848644 ISBN 13: 9780801848643

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Walter Lord―author of such best-sellers as A Night to Remember and A Day of Infamy―brings to life the remarkable events of what we now call The War of 1812―including 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."

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Review

Still the best account available of the two key battles of the War of 1812... Popular historian Walter Lord, a Baltimore native, also wrote the bestsellers A Night to Remember and A Day of Infamy. In The Dawn's Early Light he brings the 1814 battles around Washington and Baltimore to life, making them seem terrifying and critical, as they must have seemed to Marylanders at the time.

(Baltimore City Paper)

Appealing to students of early American history and especially those with an interest in the mid-Atlantic states, this reprint of the 1972 original work on the War of 1812 provides a compelling narrative of the political and military strategy surrounding the battles in the Chesapeake bay in 1814.

(Reference and Research Book News)

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0801848644
• ISBN 13: 9780801848643
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400