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Books with author David Fischer

  • Washington's Crossing

    David Hackett Fischer

    Hardcover (Oxford University Press, USA, Feb. 12, 2004)
    Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. George Washington lost ninety percent of his army and was driven across the Delaware River. Panic and despair spread through the states. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. Even as the British and Germans spread their troops across New Jersey, the people of the colony began to rise against them. George Washington saw his opportunity and seized it. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined. Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. At the same time, they developed an American ethic of warfare that John Adams called "the policy of humanity," and showed that moral victories could have powerful material effects. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning, in a pivotal moment for American history.
  • The Creation of Atoms and Stars

    David E. Fisher

    Library Binding (Henry Holt & Co, Oct. 1, 1979)
    Discusses the various theories, models, and hypotheses regarding the origins of the stars and the elements, describing stars as mammoth atomic factories producing all the atoms of the universe
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  • Paul Revere's Ride

    David Hackett Fischer

    Paperback (Oxford University Press, March 15, 1994)
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  • The Origin and Evolution of our own Particular Universe

    David E. Fisher

    Hardcover (Atheneum, Nov. 30, 1988)
    The physics of creation is explored, with a particular emphasis on the big bang theory, celestial phenomena, the formation of Earth and its solar system, and both the hows and whats of a scientific knowledge
  • Washington's Crossing

    David Hackett Fischer

    Audio Cassette (Recorded Books, March 15, 2004)
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  • The Creation of the Universe

    David E. Fisher

    Library Binding (Atheneum, Nov. 1, 1977)
    Describes the way in which the universe was created as well as tracing the evolution of cosmological theory from Aristotle, through Einstein, to current researchers
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  • The Creation of the Universe

    Fisher, David E.,

    Paperback (Bobbs-Merrill Co, Nov. 15, 1977)
    For thousands of years mankind wondered how the universe had been created, and for thousands of years no one had the faintest clue. It was not until 1917 that Albert Einstein finally started us off the right track. And now, just sixty years later, we can say precisely how the universe came into existence.
  • Washington's Crossing

    David Hackett Fischer

    Paperback (Oxford University Press, USA, March 15, 2005)
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  • Washington's Crossing

    David Hackett Fischer

    Library Binding
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  • Cool Sports Dad: 75 Amazing Sporting Tricks to Teach and Impress Your Kids by David Fischer

    David Fischer

    Hardcover (Skyhorse Publishing, March 15, 1865)
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  • Washington's Crossing by Fischer, David Hackett

    Fischer

    Paperback (Oxford University Press,2006, )
    Washington's Crossing by Fischer, David Hackett [Oxford University Press,2006] (Paperback) [Paperback]