American Revolution in Women’s Diaries

The book that you hold in your hands is a collection of unique testimonies about the difficult turns of world history of the late XVIII century, when a new state appeared on the maps of the world, known today as the United States of America …
… A woman dressed in the fashion of the 18th century sits by the attic window and carefully observes through the tender pipe behind the battle on the Delaware River … Then she goes down, sits down to the table and carefully describes not only what he saw, but also fixes her thoughts about what is happening … and she is not the only one …
No, these ladies are not spy. They are respectable housewives who keep diaries during the war for the independence of the United States (1775-1785). From under their pen, not heroic stories come out, but everyday observations of the military pore, sometimes worse in essence than a description of the battles.
In this book, the reader presents several female diaries that are published in Russia for the first time.

Editor
Telitsyn Vadim Leonidovich
Translator
Korotkova Svetlana
Publisher
Principle, 2014