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Northshire Bookstore ReviewReviewed By... Bill LewisThis is "small history" at its best; the kind of work that explores and illuminates major historical questions by telling a tightly focused story about an "ordinary" person doing her best to make her life endurable in the face of conditions over which she has very little control. Eunice Connolly, a poor white New Englander, came of age on the eve of the Civil War. Her first marriage provided little if any love... read more>>>
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Northshire Bookstore ReviewReviewed By... Louise JonesThis moving story, set in and around colonial Deerfield, MA., won the National Book Award for history as well as the Francis Parkman and Ray Allen Billington history prizes. In 1704, a French and Indian war party attacked the settlement of Deerfield, killing many inhabitants and capturing a minister, John Williams, and his five children. Most of the Willams family was eventually released, but Eunice Willams c... read more>>>
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Northshire Bookstore ReviewReviewed By... Bill LewisOn of the finest books on the American Revolutionary War in decades, this 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner is a triumph in multiple ways. Perhaps a simple (and brief) way of suggesting its excellence is to say that it may easilly appeal equally to those who have minimal familiarity with the subject as well for those who are thoroughly knowledgable. Really.
To start with, the research is prodigious and the carefull... read more>>>
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