Description: Washington's Spies : The Story of America's First Spy Ring, Paperback by Rose, Alexander, ISBN 0553383299, ISBN-13 9780553383294, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 publisher description.
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Book Title: Washington's Spies : the Story of America's First Spy Ring
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Topic: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Espionage, Intelligence & Espionage, Revolutionary, Military / United States, Presidents & Heads of State
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2007
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Alexander Rose
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback