The Story of Valley Forge by R Conrad Stein

The Story of Valley Forge by R Conrad Stein

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville VALEY FORGE Poignant, tender, and powerful, VALEY FORGE brings into sharp new focus one of the most tensely dramatic episodes of the American Revolution. With warmth and wit, compassion and sensitivity, MacKinlay Kantor evokes the flavor, pulse and texture of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, transporting the reader into the houses and workshops, kitchens and stables, parlors and bedrooms of ordinary citizens. Here are not only the soldiers of Valley Forge, but the panorama of the Revolution itself. George Washington, lamenting the remoteness and lack of valor in the Congress, anticipating new battle; the sprightly, good-humored Martha, always loyal and loving to a fault; the Marquis de Lafayette, whose poise and dignity belied his youth; Baron von Steuben whose halting English made the soldiers laugh, but whose fierce devotion won their respect. And the multitude-young Mum, a sixteen-year-old deserter savagely trampled by Tarleton's Raiders; Malachi Lennan whose gift of a horse gained him entry into Mad Anthony Wayne's Drovers; Billy, the turncoat, wailing for his mother as he was dragged to the gallows. Sons of farmers and tradesmen, trappers and teachers-some too young to fight, and some too old-surge through these pages, giving life, breath, scope and humanity to the American Revolution and the winter at Valley Forge.

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ISBN 13	9780516046815
ISBN 10	0516046810
Title	The Story of Valley Forge
Author	R Conrad Stein
Series	Cornerstones Of Freedom
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Children's Press(CT)
Year published	1985-04-01
Number of pages	31
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