Shots Heard Round the World, Volume I

About the Book

SHOTS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD is a new history of the American people, focusing on developments overseas and at home during the war years, from the French-Indian Wars to today’s War on Terrorism. The history is centered in Boston, “the cradle of liberty,” and connects Savin Hill, Beacon Hill, Bunker Hill and Dorchester Heights with Brooklyn Heights, Yorktown, Plattsburg, Vicksburg, Santa Fe, the Little Bighorn River, San Juan Hill, Belleau Wood, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Normandy, Tokyo, Inchon, Khe Sahn, Kuwait, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Moscow and Beijing. The closing chapter’s heading, “The Triumph of Multi-Ethnic America”, encapsulates the book’s theme.

About the Author

The authors: Anna Bell Lee prefers anonymity. William Matthew Connolly has retired from the private practice of law in Boston. He specialized in environmental, health and constitutional law, studied at Boston College, Georgetown Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and Suffolk University Law School, co-authored, with Paul Joseph Walkowski, “From Trial Court to the United States Supreme Court” (Branden 1995), the story of the St. Patrick Day Parade case, and authored “One Life” (Xlibris, 2001), which debunks Roe v. Wade, and “Shots Heard Round the World” (Xlibris, 2002), a two-volume history of the American people, which extols America’s veterans.