Son of the Revolution
Son of the Revolution

Author: Liang Heng

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1984-02-12

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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An account of growing up during China's Great Cultural Revolution.

Adopted Son
Adopted Son

Author: David A. Clary

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0553383450

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A critical analysis of the unique friendship between American general George Washington and the young French Marquis de Lafayette describes how their bond resulted in extraordinary success on the battlefield and in diplomatic circles, aided an American victory in the Revolutionary War, and paved the way for the French Revolution. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

1776: Son of Liberty
1776: Son of Liberty

Author: Elizabeth Massie

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-07-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780812590944

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On his farm in Maryland, sixteen-year-old Caleb Jacobson waits anxiously for news from Boston: rumors have it that colonials are staging an armed rebellion against the oppressive tyranny of King George III of England and his soldiers. War! Caleb longs to join the volunteer army of General Washington and win the fight for freedom, but he is torn between loyalty to his fellow colonials and his race. Caleb is a free black living in a slave state. He knows firsthand the horrors and hardships of slavery and wonders what good an American victory will do if his fellow blacks remain shackled in bondage. Then comes news that the British Governor Lord Dunmore promises freedom to any slave who joins his army against the Americans. Can he be trusted to keep his word? Caleb will have to choose.

Children of the Revolution
Children of the Revolution

Author: Robert Gildea

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 845

ISBN-13: 0141918527

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Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors. From soldiers to priests, from peasants to Communards, from feminists to literary figures such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac, Robert Gildea's brilliant new history explores every aspect of these rapidly changing times, and the people who lived through them.

Rereading the Revolution
Rereading the Revolution

Author: Benjamin S. Lawson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780879728182

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Approximately fifty historical novels dealing with the American Revolution were published in the United States in the single ten-year period from 1896 to 1906. Benjamin Lawson critically examines the narrative strategies employed in these many novels, the ways in which fiction is made to serve the purpose of vivifying national history. The British conventions of the historical romance in one sense seem to preclude radical declarations of literary independence even in books purportedly about a war against Britain. Working within the formula, these many writers nonetheless created fictional plots which parallel and reflect the enveloping concerns of the War for Independence. Just as the war was sometimes viewed as an Anglo-American family squabble, these metaphorical narratives depict familial and love interests.