America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of
breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the
year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic,
the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her
rebellious colonial subjects and that placed America's survival in the hands of
George Washington. In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely
human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of
the Declaration of Independence--when the whole American cause was riding on
their success, without which all hope for independence would have been