February 2017

The leading actors and events in Boston in the 1770s - Samuel Adams, John Hancock, the Boston Tea Party, Lexington, Concord, and
Bunker Hill - have assumed a cherished place in history. Yet, with the passage of time, a layer of legend has obscured the true picture.
Here, from award-winning historian Francis Russell, is the bloody story of the early days of the American Revolution.

Here is the story of the tormented, mercurial Ludwig van Beethoven cast against the panorama of the times in which he lived. What
emerges is a portrait of a man and an age that adds another dimension to the music that has become part of our heritage.