Tim Grove
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The words of "The Star-Spangled Banner" describe the battle at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland during the war of 1812. This illustrated account describes that battle in detail, in which slaves and free black men fought, a seamstress sewed the flag that flew over the fort, and the city's business owners joined in the fight to defend the United States.
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"This book is being published in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The museum will celebrate its 40th anniversary in July 2016. There will be a new Smithsonian exhibition, to be called "Milestones of Flight." This book is NOT a catalog of the exhibition; rather, it is a history of flight told through approximately twenty-five historical milestones"--
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"In October 1781, American, French, and British forces converged on a small village named Yorktown--a place that the British would try to forget and Americans would forever remember. In his riveting, balanced, and thoroughly researched account of the Revolutionary War's last pivotal conflict, author-historian Tim Grove follows the true stories of American, French, and British players, whose lives intersected at Yorktown. Through very different viewpoints--from...