The Crossing

No one has written more passionately or vividly about the American Revolution than Howard Fast. The legendary author of Freedom Road & Citizen Tom Paine, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Spartacus & the triumphant survivor of Hollywood's notorious blacklist of the '50s, he's part of American history. This definitive new edition of Fast's novel, with photographs from the A&E film, reverberates with the dramatic events of Washington's re-crossing of the Delaware--a pivotal moment in the American Revolution. It's a testament to Washington's leadership of the young volunteer army fighting in summer clothes against the bitter cold, snow & almost impassable Delaware River. Crisscrossing thru Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut & New York, this is also the tale of Colonel John Glover, the leader of a band of New England fishermen, of Tom Paine, the first American war correspondent; & the dreaded German Hessians. Dispelling myths, Fast has written an unforgettably true account of a key event in America's struggle for independence all Americans should know & understand.