In Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America historian Brady J. Crytzer explores the German experience during the American Revolution through the lives of three individuals from vastly different walks of life, all thrust into the maelstrom of North American combat. Here are the stories of a dedicated career soldier, Johann Ewald, captain of a Field-J???ger Corps, who fought from New York to the final battles along the Potomac; Frederika Charlotte Louise von Massow, Baroness von Riedesel, who ...
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In Hessians: Mercenaries, Rebels, and the War for British North America historian Brady J. Crytzer explores the German experience during the American Revolution through the lives of three individuals from vastly different walks of life, all thrust into the maelstrom of North American combat. Here are the stories of a dedicated career soldier, Johann Ewald, captain of a Field-J???ger Corps, who fought from New York to the final battles along the Potomac; Frederika Charlotte Louise von Massow, Baroness von Riedesel, who raced with her young children through the Canadian wilderness to reunite with her long-distant husband; and middle-aged chaplain Philipp Waldeck, who struggled to make sense of it all while accompanying his unit through the exotic yet brutal conditions of the Caribbean and British Florida. Beautifully written, Hessians offers a glimpse into the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of the German armies commanded to destroy it.
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Fair. Stains on outside cover/inside the book. Cover/Case has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CD's, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 9781594162244. First edition, first printing. Hard cover published by Westholme Publishing in 2015. Gray covers with black binding and gilt lettering on spine. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Large 8vo, 296 pages, 1.2 lb.; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 296 pages.
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Fine in fine jacket. First edition, first printing. A fine, fresh, apparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 296 pp. with bibliography, index. In 1775, the Britsih Empire was in crisis, buried in debt from yaesr of combat against the French and facing the growing revolutionary fervor in its North American colonies. To confront the Americans would press their exhausted armed forces to a breaking point so they turned to the armies of the Holy Roman Empire to supress the sedition. By 1776 there would be 18, 000 German forces in North America and by the war's end there would be over 30, 000. These troops, as a group erroneously called "Hessians", they actually came from six separate German states. This work presents a view of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of the German armies commanded to destroy it.
