
The First Salute
A View of the American Revolution
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Wanda McCaddon
This compellingly written history presents a fresh, new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to American nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution five years later. It paints a magnificent portrait of General George Washington and recounts in riveting detail the events responsible for the birth of our nation.
©1988 Barbara W. Tuchman (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
"Trenchant observations and an exciting climax....Most libraries will want this Pulitzer Prize-winner's latest." (Library Journal)
"Blackstone's inspired pairing of narrator Nadia May with the work of Barbara Tuchman introduces a new generation to...one of the twentieth century's most popular and esteemed historians." (AudioFile)
"[A] brilliant slice of American Revolutionary history....expertly weaving political and military history, Tuchman lets you feel how Washington's victory at Yorktown sent shock waves around the globe." (Publishers Weekly)
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Pulitzer Prize level history
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The First Salute
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Tuchman approaches the War from a geopolitical perspective which confirms a few myths and shatters many, while never abandoning the drama of war on land, sea, and Solon, and enlivens all with well documented human drama.
Mc Caddon is Tuchman’s Audible alter ego. Her refined English accent, sounding ripened to maturity, evidencing a slight raspiness, comes through as both knowing , refined and sexy. She has the perfect voice to bring alive Tuchman’s wonderful prose.
If your looking for Revolution 101 and a freshening of your preconceived All American understanding of the American Revolution, don’t bother. But I strongly urge this book for those who enjoy both the beauty of art and language, and have an insatiable appetite for learning “The Rest of the Story” from one of the very best.
Not your school-days re-telling of the Revolution
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Only complaint is on the reading of the story - I do not understand the need to put in French, or German or any other non-English phrases - or worse, a foreign accent. It’s distracting, a bit patronizing and unnecessary.
Excellent in-depth and Unique View of Revolutionary War
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Sometime the other view is what we need.
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TUCHMAN!
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What did you like best about The First Salute? What did you like least?
I enjoyed the history of the Netherlands in the Revolutionary War. I don't think that story has been told before.I think the story dragged on for a long ways not seeming to get anywhere. When would the war start? etc.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
The view of Europe on the British predicament was the best. What would Washington do was not that interesting.Did Nadia May do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
She has a voice like Audrey Hepburn so if that matches your view of how George Washington talked than yes she did fine.Did The First Salute inspire you to do anything?
Read more about the early years of our nation.Not one of Tuchman's best.
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What you never knew about the Revolution
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