March 5, 2024
Washington's Crossing David H. Fisher SIGNED LIMITED ED
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Oxford University PressWashington's Crossing SIGNED LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION David Hackett Fischer SPECIAL LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION SIGNED & NUMBERED . One of only 1000 produced, this being # 5 . Signed by the Author, David Hackett Fischer on the Title Page. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering, gilded page edges and special design end leaves. Comes in special box with same illustration as original dust cover. At the core of an impeccably researched, brilliantly executed military history is an analysis of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River in December 1776 and the resulting destruction of the Hessian garrison of Trenton and defeat of a British brigade at Princeton. Fischer's perceptive discussion of the strategic, operational and tactical factors involved is by itself worth the book's purchase. He demonstrates Washington's insight into the revolution's desperate political circumstances, shows how that influenced the idea of a riposte against an enemy grown overconfident with success and presents Washington's skillful use of what his army could do well. Above all, Brandeis historian Fischer (Albion's Seed) uses the Trenton campaign to reveal the existence, even in the revolution's early stage, of a distinctively American way of war, much of it based on a single fact: civil and military leaders were accountable
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