The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord

The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord

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."

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

Lord, Walter: - Walter Lord (1917-2002) studied history at Princeton, and after World War Two, attended Yale University where he earned a Law degree. While he is best known for his work A Night to Remember, concerning the sinking of the RMS Titanic, he is also the author of numerous other works including Day of Infamy and Peary to the Pole.

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ISBN 13	9780801848643
ISBN 10	0801848644
Title	The Dawn's Early Light
Author	Walter Lord
Series	Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published	1994-04-01
Number of pages	400
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