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Valley Forge (Revolutionary War, Bk 2) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Valley Forge - Revolutionary War, Bk 2 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser, William Dufris (Narrator), Callista Gingrich (Narrator) It's the winter of 1777, and Washington's battered, demoralized army retreats from Philadelphia. Arriving at Valley Forge, they discover that their repeated requests for a stockpile of food, winter clothing, and building tools have been ignored by Congress. With no other options available, the men settle down for a season of agony. For w... more »eeks the dwindling army freezes under tents in the bitter cold. Food runs out. Disease festers. The men are on the point of collapse, while in Philadelphia the British, joined by Allen van Dorn, the Loyalist brother of the dead patriot, Jonathan van Dorn, live in luxury.
In spite of the suffering and deceit, Washington endures all, joined at last by a volunteer from Germany, Baron Friederich von Steuben. With precious few supplies and even less time, von Steuben begins the hard task of recasting the army as a professional fighting force capable of facing the British head-on--something it has never accomplished before--and in the process he changing the course of history.
Read by William Dufris and Callista Gingrich. 15 audio discs (19 hr.)« less