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One of Italy's leading men of letters, a chemist by profession, writes about incidents of his life in which one or another of the elements figured in such a way as to become a personal preoccupation Primo Levi's memoir of his Jewish family, life as a Jew, and being a chemist.

Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief...