Recounts the events surrounding Washington's crossing of the Delaware and the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War
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Nobody has written more passionately or more vividly about the American Revolutionthan Howard Fast. The legendary living author of Freedom Road and CitizenTom Paine, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Spartacus andthe triumphant survivor of Hollywood's notorious blacklist of the fifties, HowardFast is a part of American history. This definitive new edition of Fast's novel, with photographs from the A&Efilm, reverberates with the dramatic events of Washington's re-crossing of theDelaware-a pivotal moment in the American Revolution. It is an amazing testament to Washington's leadership of the young volunteerarmy fighting in summer clothes against the bitter cold, the snow and the almostimpassable Delaware River. Criss-crossing through Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut andNew York, this is also the tale of Colonel John Glover, the leader of a bandof New England fishermen, of Tom Paine, the first American war correspondent;and the dreaded German Hessians themselves Dispelling the myths of history, Howard Fast has written an unforgettable andtrue account of a key event in America's struggle for independence that allAmericans should know and understand.
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