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The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army

6 best books like The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army (Paul Lockhart): Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution, A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin, Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History

Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
AuthorTerry Golway
ISBN0805080058
The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of American independence at Yorktown

Nathanael Greene is a revolutionary hero who has been lost to history. Although places named in his honor dot city...
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic
AuthorJohn Ferling
ISBN0195176006
It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.

In...
Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution
AuthorRichard M. Ketchum
ISBN0805073965
From "the finest historian of the American Revolution" comes the definitive account of the battle and unlikely triumph that led to American independence (Douglas Brinkley)

In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington's army lay idle for want of supplies, food, and money. All...
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
AuthorJoseph Plumb Martin
ISBN0451528115
A Great Veteran's Day Read

I started a much longer review, but there is not enough that can be said about this, and, saying too much tends to water down the overall impact. So, I'll keep it short and to the point, as much as i am able to anyway.

The autobiographical story of Joseph Plumb Martin...
Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution
AuthorMark Puls
ISBN1403975825
Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award!

Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became a trademark of...
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
AuthorBrian Kilmeade
ISBN1591848067
From the authors of the  New York Times  bestseller  George Washington’s Secret Six , the little-known story of Thomas Jefferson’s battle to defend America against Islamic pirates.

Brian Kilmeade – cohost of “Fox & Friends” on Fox News and the national radio...
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