Mark Puls delivers a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general who played a key role in all of George Washington's battles.During the Siege of Boston, Henry Knox's amazing 300 mile transport of forty nine cannons from Ticonderoga saved the city. Building upon his talent for logistics, Knox engineered Washington's famous Christmas night passage to safety across the Delaware River. And it was the general's tactical successes that made the final victory at ...

"A brief, sharply focused biography [that] restores Adams to his rightful place as an indispensable provocateur of American liberty" ( Kirkus Reviews).Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became a trademark of American politics, Adams astutely forced Britain into coercive military mea...

Hier hört der Spaß noch lange nicht auf!Die Meister der spitzen Zunge, die Helden hintersinnigen Humors, die Sänger spöttischer Verse gehen auf große Fahrt: Mark Twain erklimmt Schweizer Berge, Ringelnatz bereist Tirol und Kurt Tucholsky preist die Kunst des (falschen) Reisens. Und während Umwege die Ortskenntnis erweitern, begegnen sie so skurrilen Gestalten wie der Frau McWilliams (bei Gewitter), dem Versicherungsvertreter der Olympia-AG oder der Tante Zerlinde – ...