Bob Drury Livres

"It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting for this epic narrative of none other than America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America's "First Frontier""-- From publisher

#1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorsDecember 1777. Eighteen months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, some 12,000 members of America's beleaguered Continental Army stagger into a small Pennsylvania encampment northwest of British-occupied Philadelphia. The starving and half-naked force is reeling from a string of demoralizing defeats by King George III's army, and barely equipped to survive the winter. Their commander in chief, George Washington, is at the lowest ebb of his military career: the Continental Congress is in exile and the American Revolution appears to be lost. Yet a spark remains. Valley Forge is the riveting true story of a nascent United States toppling an empire.

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