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

Author: Paul Lockhart Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780061451638 9780061451645 0061451630 0061451649

"A terrific biography....The dramatic story of how the American army that beat the British was forged has never been better told than in this remarkable book." --Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of Team of Rivals   The true story of the Baron de Steuben and the making of the American Army, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge is the first biography in half a century of the immigrant Prussian soldier who molded George Washington's ragged, demoralized troops into the fighting force that eventually triumphed in America's War of Independence. Praised by renowned historian Thomas Fleming as "an important book for anyone interested in the American Revolution," The Drillmaster of Valley Forge rights a historical wrong by finally giving a forgotten hero his well-deserved due. Similar books: Patriot Battles by Michael Stephenson The Winter Soldiers by Richard M. Ketchum Washington's General by Terry Golway The War Of The Revolution by Christopher Ward The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson Almost a Miracle by John Ferling George Washington's War by Robert Leckie Benedict Arnold by Willard Sterne Randall A Young Patriot by Jim Murphy Victory at Yorktown by Richard M. Ketchum Nathan Hale by M. William Phelps The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn American Insurgents, American Patriots by T. H. Breen Saratoga by Richard M. Ketchum Washington's Secret War by Thomas Fleming The Whites of Their Eyes by Paul Lockhart The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers