As written by Deseret Book and Amazon: By the end of 1776, the Continental army is faced with the overwhelming truth that they are losing the Revolution. The British have pummeled them with a series of bloody battles that have shattered the American army and have forced them into a desperate retreat. Now, the American camp crouches helplessly on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River as the British move more than three thousand Hessian soldiers into position. Only the black waters of the Delaware River prevent a total ruin. Only a desperate plan promises a chance of success
MY REVIEW:
“Trenton, New Jersey, December 26th, 1776. ... A strangeness comes stealing over the battlefield after the guns have fallen silent. Hills, or streets, or valleys, or breastworks where men classed in death struggles are no longer so wide, so high, so unattainable. Magically they have become ordinary, normal, vulnerable. Places where men fell have lost their bright fascination and once again are just places like a thousand others, and fallen comrades somehow seem diminished, smaller.” So writes Ron Carter in this incredible history of the Revolutionary War fought by ancestors who were determined to be free. DO NOT MISS THIS SERIES,
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