About the Book: The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to
Charleston, 1777-1780
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the second volume of the landmark American
Revolution trilogy by the bestselling author of The British Are Coming, George
Washingtons army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat. "This is
great history . . . compulsively readable . . . There is no better writer of
narrative history than the Pulitzer Prizewinning Atkinson."—The New York Times
The first twenty-one months of the American Revolution—which began at Lexington
and ended at Princeton—was the story of a ragged group of militiamen