History
1776
David McCullough
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The year the American cause almost died: defeats at New York, a desperate retreat, and the gambles at Trenton and Princeton that kept the Revolution alive.
A close narrative of the single year of the American Revolution, focused on George Washington and the Continental Army's near-collapse and improbable survival.
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