Download Audiobook Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger in English

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On this gripping biography, acclaimed creator Harlow Giles Unger paints an intimate portrait of the heroic younger French soldier who, at 19, renounced a lifetime of luxurious in Paris and Versailles to battle and bleed for liberty – at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and Yorktown. A serious basic within the Continental military, he rapidly earned the love of his troops, his fellow commanders, and his commander in chief, George Washington, who known as him his “adopted son”.Unger follows Lafayette from the battlefields of North America to the palace of Versailles, the place the marquis received probably the most gorgeous diplomatic victory in world historical past – convincing the French courtroom to ship the large navy and naval power wanted to win American independence. He then returned to America to steer the exceptional guerrilla marketing campaign in Virginia that climaxed with British give up at Yorktown.Lafayette’s triumph turned to tragedy, nevertheless, when he tried to introduce American democracy in his homeland. His quest for a constitutional monarchy unwittingly set off the French Revolution and plunged Europe into greater than a decade of slaughter and battle. Declared an enemy of the state, Lafayette fled France solely to be imprisoned for 5 years in an Austrian dungeon, whereas his spouse, Adrienne, and her household festered in jail, awaiting the merciless blade of the guillotine.