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1) Treacherous beauty: Peggy Shippen, the woman behind Benedict Arnold's plot to betray America

Author

Jacob, Mark

Publisher

Lyons Press

Pub. Date

[2012]

Language

English

2) Aftershock: the human toll of war : haunting World War II images by America's soldier photographers

Author

Cahan, Richard

Publisher

CityFiles Press

Pub. Date

[2019]

Language

English

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The world was in ruin at the end of World War II: from the Blitz in London to the aftermath of the atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A small group of Army soldiers witnessed it all. They photographed Germany's last push, the Battle of the Bulge, and they rode into Germany to witness unimagined destruction. They documented the Burma Road, which opened Mainland China to supplies, and saw war atrocities as far away as the Philippines. These...

3) Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America

Author

Case, Stephen

Language

English

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Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war's most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen. While war was raging between England and its rebellious colonists, Peggy befriended a suave British officer and then married a crippled revolutionary general twice her age....