{"product_id":"endgame-1758-9780803260092","title":"Endgame 1758","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America. This book presents the dramatic military and social history of this short-lived and significant fortress, seaport, and community, and the citizens who made it their home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For Johnston, a longtime historian with Parks Canada, \u003ci\u003eEndgame 1758\u003c\/i\u003e is a fitting capstone to a career devoted to French colonial Louisbourg, and of all the author’s books the one most obviously written with a cross-over audience in mind. The prose is often appropriately dramatic, and colourful individuals and narrative drive play a greater role than in Johnston’s earlier work, which of necessity is more quantitative and analytical in nature.\"—Philip Girard, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Based on exhaustive and meticulous research in French, British and British and French colonial records, [\u003ci\u003eEndgame 1758\u003c\/i\u003e] successfully places the events leading to the fall of Louisbourg within the mid-18th-century Atlantic world. Johnston uses his well-sustained chess metaphor to carefully reconstruct the movement of opposing fleets, military strategies and engagements that form the central focus of the monograph. . . . While offering a wealth of rich detail about the naval and military engagements that led to the final defeat of Louisbourg as well as the social and commercial aspects of life in the fortified town, it is a highly readable book.\"—Canadian Historical Association\u003cbr\u003e\"Johnston makes full use of the array of new and older resources in his \u003ci\u003eEndgame 1758\u003c\/i\u003e. In a well written, balanced, and researched analysis, he puts that campaign in a historic, cultural, and strategic context. . . . A very welcome and needed addition to the literature on the French and Indian War.\"—William Nester, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Military History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Johnston's excellent research reveals much about this isolated outpost that was so crucial to the leaders of Europe's most powerful countries for the duration of this one eventful decade.\"—David T. Flaherty, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Review of Canadian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No scholar could be better qualified to recount the final years of France's great North American fortress and naval base than A. J. B. Johnston. . . . Johnston's research is exhaustive and impeccably grounded in French and British primary sources; his prose is lucid; his interpretations are modest, plausible, and humane. His account of Louisbourg's fall will remain the standard narrative for a long, long time.\"—Fred Anderson, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A. J. B. Johnston's \u003ci\u003eEndgame\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e1758, \u003c\/i\u003ecombined with his \u003ci\u003eLife and Religion at Louisbourg, 1713–1758 \u003c\/i\u003e(1996), constitutes the definitive modern study of the social and military career of France's colonial Cape Breton fortress and town.\"—Reginald C. Stuart, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eTerminology and Dates\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations                                                         \u003cbr\u003ePrologue: The Book Ahead                               \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eOpening Moves, 1749                                                                                             \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2:  Middle Game, 1750-1755                                                  \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e The Match Heightens, 1756-1757                                      \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4:  Beginning of the End, Early 1758                                                                \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: This Time For Real, 1-7 June 1758              \u003cb\u003e            \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6:  Attack and Defend, 8 June-27 July 1758    \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Winner Take All                                                                                                                  \u003cbr\u003eAppendices","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405263675735,"sku":"9780803260092","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803260092.jpg?v=1730489332","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/endgame-1758-9780803260092","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}