"Invites comparison with Crane's Red Badge Of Courage... I think this is an even better book."
-- The New York Times
Bantam Doubleday Dell Web Site, March, 2000
Summary
When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column
through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never
have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder
aches from your musket's kick and the tight, disciplined red column bleeds and wavers and breaks and you begin
to shout at the top of your lungs because you are there, at the birth of freedom -- you're a veteran of the Battle
of Lexington, and you've helped whip the King's best soldiers...
