Este autor explora eventos históricos con una perspectiva única, moldeada por una vida vivida a través de continentes y una transición del periodismo a la historia. Su obra se caracteriza por profundas inmersiones en el pasado, analizando momentos cruciales y desvelando narrativas y conexiones ocultas. A través de una investigación meticulosa y una prosa cautivadora, da vida a complejos relatos históricos para el lector. Su experiencia se manifiesta en publicaciones en destacadas revistas literarias e históricas, demostrando una habilidad para fusionar el rigor académico con la narración accesible.
Sheds light on the experience of the individual soldier by examining three battles which demonstrate the formation of the United States military that people know today and the traditions that have shaped the character of America's armed forces.
In the summer of 1778, General Washington needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy's battle plans. Washington's band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged to let him retire but always came through in the end. Personally guiding these everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn't spy, he possessed a talent for deception--and proved an adept spymaster. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. Historian Rose tells an unknown story of the Revolution--the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners--that has never appeared in the history books.--From publisher description