Hurricane of Independence: The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution

by Tony Williams

Book Overview

The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane season

On September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial capitols and killing more than four thousand people. In an era when hurricanes were viewed as omens from God, what this storm signified to the colonists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402221231
• ISBN13: 9781402221231
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"