Crossing

By Howard Fast

Book Overview

Nobody has written more passionately or more vividly about the American Revolution than Howard Fast. The legendary living author of Freedom Road and Citizen Tom Paine, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Spartacus and the triumphant survivor of Hollywood's notorious blacklist of the fifties, Howard Fast is a 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 is an amazing testament to Washington's leadership of the young volunteer army fighting in summer clothes against the bitter cold, the snow and the almost impassable Delaware River. Criss-crossing through Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut and 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; and the dreaded German Hessians themselves Dispelling the myths of history, Howard Fast has written an unforgettable and true account of a key event in America's struggle for independence that all Americans should know and understand.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911020101
• ISBN13: 9780911020106
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: New Jersey Historical Soc
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A nice way to fill in the gaps.

I've read the historical accounts of the Delaware Crossing and the subsequent battle of Trenton. However, Howard Fast's work puts you inside the head of the characters. Granted some of this can be done with historical documents, but it can be clumsy and certainly less literate than this book. It's not a true history book, but it's a great way to get started or to help you visualize what happened.

this book picks up where the movie left off!

if you like the A & E movie, this book answers lots of questions left unanswered and is quite interesting--by the same writer as the screenplay

engrossing historical account of washington crossing

if you remember freedom road, you'll like this retelling of washington's recrossing the delaware river--with a new introduction by 85 year old howard fast