Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (541 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GGBDWAW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Comparing Two Books I live on Long Island, near Setauket, the scene of much of the action in this book. A local historian wrote a review of this book for our hometown newspaper in which she compared "Washington's Spies" to the currently popular "George Washington's Secret Six" by Brian Ki. A Game of Chess Rocco Dormarunno Alexander Rose's "Washington's Spies" is not going to appeal to everyone. It is very localized, keying in on the New York/Connecticut/New Jersey region. So people not from this area may feel put off. However, control of the Hudson River and Long Island Sound was crucia. A Bright Light on a Shady Side of the American Revolution (in and around Long Island, NY) Mark Rothenberg It's the best book on the subject that I've yet read on the Setauket (or Culper) Spy Ring, certainly the best documented and best argued. And I write that as the person charge of a public library local history room that serves Suffolk County, NY, in which Setauket is s
But Washington's Spies is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy's battle plans and military strategy. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors-including the spymaster at the heart of it all.In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperate