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Mintz, Max M. was born on August 21, 1919 in London. Came to the United States, 1920.
(This lively and colorful work offers a fresh account of t...)
This lively and colorful work offers a fresh account of the Saratoga campaign of 1777 through the lives of its opposing generals--John Burgoyne, the British commander, and Horatio Gates, the American (but British-born) commander. The book vividly portrays the two men and the events that developed around them. It is the fullest discussion ever written about both the American and British dimensions of this campaign, the only engagement in the Revolutionary War in which an all-American army captured a major British force. Max M. Mintz has combed the letters and diaries of survivors to craft on-the-scene descriptions of the British taking of Ticonderoga, the slaughter at Hubbardton, the victory of American militia at Bennington, the two hard-fought battles of Saratoga, and the surrender of Burgoyne. Throughout the book new insights are revealed: Burgoyne's difficulties with his superiors, the deep roots of Gates's quarrels with George Washington and Benedict Arnold, the factors that caused Burgoyne to choose the land rather than the water route from Lake Champlain to the Hudson River, and the broken promise that misled Burgoyne into believing that Sir Henry Clinton would come to save him.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300052618/?tag=2022091-20
(This work offers an account of the Saratoga campaign of 1...)
This work offers an account of the Saratoga campaign of 1777 through the lives of its opposing generals - John Burgoyne, the British commander, and Horatio Gates, the American (but British born) commander. The book portrays the two men and the events that developed around them. It covers both the American and British dimensions of the campaign, the only engagement in the Revolutionary War in which an all-American army captured a major British force. The author has combed the letters and diaries of survivors to craft on-the-scene descriptions of the British taking of Ticonderoga, the slaughter at Hubardton, the victory of American militia at Bennington, the two hard-fought battles of Saratoga, and the surrender of Burgoyne. Throughout the book new insights are revealed: Burgoyne's difficulties with his superiors; the deep roots of Gates's quarrels with George Washington and Benedict Arnold; the factors that caused Burgoyne to choose the land rather than the water route from Lake Champlain to the Hudson River and the broken promise that misled Burgoyne into believing that Sir Henry Clinton would come to save him.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300047789/?tag=2022091-20
( Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding Genera...)
Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding General John Sullivan's scorched-earth campaign against the Six Nations of the American Indians of New York and the Eastern territories in 1779, following the surrender of General John Burgoyne's British army at the Battle of Saratoga. Mintz's meticulous historical research and renowned storytelling ability give life to this arresting narrative as it probes the mechanisms of the American Revolution and the structure and function of the Iroquois Six Nations.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814756239/?tag=2022091-20
( Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding Genera...)
Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding General John Sullivan's scorched-earth campaign against the Six Nations of the American Indians of New York and the Eastern territories in 1779, following the surrender of General John Burgoyne's British army at the Battle of Saratoga. Mintz's meticulous historical research and renowned storytelling ability give life to this arresting narrative as it probes the mechanisms of the American Revolution and the structure and function of the Iroquois Six Nations.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814756220/?tag=2022091-20
Mintz, Max M. was born on August 21, 1919 in London. Came to the United States, 1920.
BSS, City College of New York, New York City, 1941. Master of Arts, New York University, New York City, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, New York City, 1957.
Teaching assistant New York University, New York City, 1946-1948. Professor history State University New York, Plattsburgh, 1948-1951. Tool engineer International Business Machines, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1951-1963.
From assistant professor to professor history Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, 1963-1985, professor emeritus history, since 1985. With United States Army, 1944-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
( Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding Genera...)
( Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding Genera...)
(This lively and colorful work offers a fresh account of t...)
(This work offers an account of the Saratoga campaign of 1...)
(Book by Mintz, Max M.)
Member of Organization American Historians.
Son of Samuel and Janie (Stein) M.