A dramatic, gripping history of the Battle of Yorktown, the last major battle of the American Revolution, told through vastly different perspectivesIn October 1781, American and British forces converged on a small village named Yorktowna place that the British would try to forget and Americans would forever remember.In his riveting, balanced, and thoroughly researched account of the Revolutionary Wars last pivotal conflict, authorhistorian Tim Grove follows the true stories of both Americans and the British with vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints whose lives intersected at Yorktown. Groves account highlights the bold decisions made by famous military leaders, the everyday courage shown by civilians, and the heroic work of enslaved individuals.Narratives include General George Washington; traitor Benedict Arnold; the young French major general, the Marquis de Lafayette; James, an enslaved man; British General Lord Cornwallis, and others.Profusely illustrated with archival images, broadsides, and letters, the book includes a timeline, endnotes, bibliography and index. The World Turned Upside Down tells the story of both the British and the Americans, in Yorktown, when the world had forever turned upside down.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 10-14 years.

There are 296 pages in this book. This book was published in 2022 by Abrams .

Tim Grove, Chief of Museum Learning at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, manages a staff that produces a wide range of programming for all ages and he develops exhibitions and websites. A trained historian with a graduate degree in history and an undergraduate degree in journalism, he blogs at www. historyplaces. wordpress. com.