The Greatest Fury : The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America - William C Davis

The Greatest Fury

The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America

By: William C Davis

Paperback | 6 January 2021 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $39.99

$35.40

11%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $8.85 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 25 to 30 business days

When will this arrive by?
Enter delivery postcode to estimate

From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the ultimate fate not only of the War of 1812 but the future course of the fledgling American republic

It was a battle that could not be won. Outnumbered farmers, merchants, backwoodsmen, smugglers, slaves, and Choctaw Indians, many of them unarmed, were up against the cream of the British army, professional soldiers who had defeated the great Napoleon and set Washington, D.C., ablaze. At stake was nothing less than the future of the vast American heartland, from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes, as the ragtag American forces fought to hold New Orleans, the gateway of the Mississippi River and an inland empire.

Tipping the balance of power in the New World, this single battle irrevocably shifted the young republic's political and cultural center of gravity and kept the British from ever regaining dominance in North America. In this gripping, comprehensive study of the Battle of New Orleans, William C. Davis examines the key players and strategy of King George's Red Coats and Andrew Jackson's makeshift "army." A master historian, he expertly weaves together narratives of personal motivation and geopolitical implications that make this battle one of the most impactful ever fought on American soil.

About the Author

William C. Davis is a retired history professor from Virginia Tech. An acclaimed expert on the Civil War, he has served on a number of advisory boards, including the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the Civil War Preservation Trust, the Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia, the National Park Service, and the Lincoln Prize and Pulitzer Prize nominating juries.
Industry Reviews
"A finely researched volume that spotlights the good, bad, and ugly of a polyglot army stumbling to war . . . The strength of Mr. Davis's chronicle is its meticulous research and the way it frames the Battle of New Orleans in the context of a vibrant, evolving, occasionally vicious South. . . . The Greatest Fury is one of the most comprehensive looks at a fight that became a punctuation mark in the tale of Manifest Destiny."
The Wall Street Journal

"One of our most important battles in American history is also one of our most forgotten (and most mythologized), but master historian Davis gives us the definitive story of the fight that set the course of our fledgling republic."
The Coil Magazine

"Professor William C. Davis has a deserved reputation for exciting reads for general audiences that bring alive the past. . . . In The Greatest Fury, Davis tells the story of the Battle of New Orleans that gave America respect as a nation, a major victory, a future president, a national holiday for many years, and almost our national anthem. . . . [He] seamlessly blends the immediate events and the background to tell history not well-known."
New York Journal of Books

"Davis delivers a highly descriptive and prodigiously researched book."
Kirkus Reviews

"William C. Davis reframes the historic significance of the Battle of New Orleans in a book that is both learned and accessible. Known for his wide-ranging research, Davis wields his energetic writing style to bring to life military and political history in a story sure to engage an appreciative audience."
Ronald C. White, New York Times bestselling author of American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

"With prose so sharp the reader will hear the cannons' roar and feel the heat of the fire, William C. Davis has crafted an epic of American history. It's all here, from the clash of warships on Lake Borgne to Andrew Jackson's line of heroic fighters, to the Redcoats who took on an enemy inferior in numbers, weapons, and experienceand suffered defeat. The Greatest Fury is a rousing read."
Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of The Allies and Patriotic Fire

More in Historical, Political and Military Biographies

Emperor of the Seas : Kublai Khan and the Making of China - Jack Weatherford
The Journals of Captain Cook : Penguin Classics - James Cook
Freedom : Memoirs 1954 - 2021 - Angela Merkel

RRP $54.99

$41.50

25%
OFF
Trump : The Art of the Deal - Donald Trump

RRP $24.99

$23.75

PATRIOT - Alexei Navalny

Hardcover

RRP $55.00

$39.90

27%
OFF
The Gulag Archipelago : 1918-56 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

RRP $37.99

$33.90

11%
OFF
Night : Penguin Modern Classics - Elie Wiesel

RRP $22.99

$17.75

23%
OFF
Enzo Ferrari : The definitive biography of an icon - Luca Dal Monte