The Hessian

By Howard Fast

Book Overview

Telling the story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. This novel provides an opportunity to explore the difficult moral positions of war, along with the complications of the Quaker family who hid and sheltered the boy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563246015
• ISBN13: 9781563246012
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Very Good

I liked it better than most of the books we reading english. I thought it was very thought provoking.

The best book by a great story-teller

Over the past 45 (of my 60) years, I've read or skimmed through almost every one of the many books Howard Fast has written. This is my favorite. I have used it - when it was available - in my American History classes. Like the better known April Morning, its setting is the American Revolution. I prefer The Hessian to April Morning - which is also an excellent book - because it has even more thoughtful questions raised, questions of justice and morality and decency. I think any reader with a heart will inevitably identify with the narrator, Dr. Evan Feversham, and his admiration for the gentle, loving Quakers, and will share, too, his anguish and uncertainty about the human condition.