Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War (John Ferling - WH) emerging civil war series a former president of the

a former president of the United States published one of the most influential books ever written about the Civil War

the book includes a substantial section of endnotes

Gold plated

the Medal of Honor winner who oversaw the development of the first national military park at Chickamauga

Winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize

Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War (John Ferling - WH) emerging civil war series a former president of theIn April 1775, British troops marched to Lexington, where an armed group of Yankees awaited them. Despite an order to disperse, shots rang out. Militiamen were killed. The British continued marching, only to find even greater trouble in Concord and all the way down the road back to Boston. The Revolutionary War had begun. Shots Heard Round the World is a bold, comprehensive rendering of the world war that erupted out of America's battle for