George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
- Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring s most secret member, Agent 355 This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here s the action. BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of Decoded When George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring. He realized that he couldn t defeat the British with military might, so he recruited a sophisticated and deeply secretive intelligence network to infiltrate New York. Drawing on extensive research, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger have offered fascinating portraits of these spies: a reserved Quaker merchant, a tavern keeper, a brash young longshoreman, a curmudgeonly Long Island bachelor, a coffeehouse owner, and a mysterious woman. Long unrecognized, the secret six are finally r
Product details
Language: English
Vendor: Commercial
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2014
ISBN:
9781595231109
Category: Book
Subcategory: Paperback
Added: January 8, 2016
