Bibliography
CARP, E. Wayne. To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783 (1990). Helps explain why Joseph Plumb Martin and other soldiers were so poorly fed and clothed.
FISCHER, David Hackett. Washington’s Crossing (2004). Thorough and superbly written, this is a Pulitzer Prize–winning narrative of the events surrounding the two Battles of Trenton.
LENGEL, Edward G., Editor. This Glorious Struggle: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters (2008). Thoughtful compilation of some of Washington’s most interesting and colorful letters from the Revolution.
MARTIN, James Kirby, Ed. Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin (1999).Excellent edition of the best account of the Revolutionary War by a common soldier.
POST, LYDIA MINTURN. Personal Recollections of the American Revolution (1859). Long Island woman’s account of British and Hessian occupation.
ROYSTER, CHARLES. A Revolutionary People at War (1979). Sensitive analysis of the relationship between the Revolutionary War and the American character.
SCHEER, GEORGE F., AND HUGH F. RANKIN, EDITORS. Rebels and Redcoats (1957). Fine anthology of letters and diary accounts of the Revolution.
SMITH, PAGE. A New Age Now Begins (2 vols., 1976). Lively narrative survey of the Revolutionary War.
WADE, HERBERT T., AND ROBERT A. LIVELY. This Glorious Cause (1958). Story of two officers, Joseph Hodgkins and Nathaniel Wade; includes Hodgkins’s letters.
CARP, E. Wayne. To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775–1783 (1990). Helps explain why Joseph Plumb Martin and other soldiers were so poorly fed and clothed.
FISCHER, David Hackett. Washington’s Crossing (2004). Thorough and superbly written, this is a Pulitzer Prize–winning narrative of the events surrounding the two Battles of Trenton.
LENGEL, Edward G., Editor. This Glorious Struggle: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters (2008). Thoughtful compilation of some of Washington’s most interesting and colorful letters from the Revolution.
MARTIN, James Kirby, Ed. Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin (1999).Excellent edition of the best account of the Revolutionary War by a common soldier.
POST, LYDIA MINTURN. Personal Recollections of the American Revolution (1859). Long Island woman’s account of British and Hessian occupation.
ROYSTER, CHARLES. A Revolutionary People at War (1979). Sensitive analysis of the relationship between the Revolutionary War and the American character.
SCHEER, GEORGE F., AND HUGH F. RANKIN, EDITORS. Rebels and Redcoats (1957). Fine anthology of letters and diary accounts of the Revolution.
SMITH, PAGE. A New Age Now Begins (2 vols., 1976). Lively narrative survey of the Revolutionary War.
WADE, HERBERT T., AND ROBERT A. LIVELY. This Glorious Cause (1958). Story of two officers, Joseph Hodgkins and Nathaniel Wade; includes Hodgkins’s letters.