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Book Reviews
We are pleased to offer this new section, which provides reports and ratings of various books on the events, places and individuals of the Revolutionary War period. Our reviewers rating for the books is indicated by one to three "tricorn hat" icons.
Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers, by H. Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham, New Papyrus Co., Inc,
Athens, GA, 2001, 2 volumes. $50.00
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their
permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index. Order
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The Yorktown Campaign and the Surrender of Cornwallis, by Henry P. Johnston, Eastern Acorn Press, 1881, reprinted 1997, ISBN 0-915992-19-1
This
is an excellent publication of the events leading up to and culminating with the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown. The
Centenary of the surrender brought about renewed interest in the Revolution and its events.
Author Johnston covers the significance
of the event – that independence had been taken and, at Yorktown, assured beyond question. Although peace would only come until two
years later, hostilities, for all practicable purposes, ceased with the victory at Yorktown.
The author covers the operations of Lafayette
and Cornwallis in Virginia and Washington’s role in the campaign. The skillful use of the French army and navy proved to be a critical
role in bringing about the defeat of the British.
Records were available from the primary commanders that assisted in recording this
historic battle. How to get Washington’s American and French troops from New York and Connecticut to Yorktown proved to be a considerable
task – one accomplished with great skill by the commander. The Yorktown campaign is a well documented history of this great
event and is recommended reading.
The Road to Valley Forge, by John Buchanan, John Wiley & Sons, 2004, ISBN 0-471-44156-2. $30.00
Author John Buchanan
set out to explain how the rag-tag army that Washington assumed command of in Cambridge, Massachusetts could stand up to the strongest
professional army in the world – and win their independence.
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The Winter Soldiers, by Richard M. Ketchum, Owl Books, 1973, ISBN 0-8050-6098-7. $15.95
This is a must read by author Richard
Ketchum that chronicles the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Ketchum covers the activities of the British from the time they
captured New York City to surrounding battles that led up to the events just prior to Christmas, 1776.
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Saratoga, Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War, by Richard M. Ketchum, Owl Books, 1997, ISBN 0-8050-6123-1. $15.95 Read more...
1776, by David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, 2005, ISBN 0-7432-2671-2. $32.00
Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution in the Carolinas & Georgia, by Benson J. Lossing, edited by Jack E. Fryar, Jr., Dram Tree
Books, 2004, Orig. Publ. 1850,
Daniel Morgan Revolutionary Rifleman, by Don Higginbotham, The University of North Carolina Press, 1961, ISBN 0-8078-1386-9. Paperback
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The Life of General Francis Marion, by Brigadier General P. Horry & Parson M. L. Weems, John F. Blair, Publisher, 2000, Orig.
Publ. 1809, ISBN 0-89587-196-3. Paperback $9.95
His Excellency, by Joseph J. Ellis, Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 2004,
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier, by Joseph Plumb Martin, Signet Classics, 2004,
Partisans & Redcoats, by Walter B. Edgar, Harper Collins Publishers, 2001,
Savannah Under Seige: the Bloodiest Hour of the Revolution, by H. Ronald Freeman, Freeport Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0-9715274-1-5. Read
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Swamp Fox, by Robert D. Bass, Sandlapper Publishing Company, 1959,
