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1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga

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In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces led by General John Burgoyne. The British strategy in confronting the Americans in upstate New York was once to separate rebellious New England from the other colonies. Despite inferior organization and training, the Americans exploited access to fresh reinforcements of men and materiel, and in the end handed the British a stunning defeat. The American victory, for the first time in the war, confirmed that independence from Great Britain was once all but inevitable.

Assimilating the archaeological remains from the battlefield in conjunction with the many letters, journals, and memoirs of the women and men in both camps, Dean Snow’s 1777 provides a richly detailed narrative of the two battles fought at Saratoga over the course of thirty-three tense and bloody days. Even as the contrasting personalities of Gates and Burgoyne are well known, they’re but two of the many actors who make up the larger drama of Saratoga. Snow highlights famous and obscure participants alike, from the brave but now notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold to Frederika von Riedesel, the wife of a British major general who later wrote the most important eyewitness account of the battles. The creator, an archaeologist who excavated on the Saratoga battlefield, combines a vivid sense of time and place–with details on weather, terrain, and technology–and a keen understanding of the adversaries’ motivations, challenges, and heroism into a suspenseful, novel-like account. A will have to-read for any person with an interest in American history, 1777 is an intimate retelling of the campaign that tipped the balance in the American War of Independence.

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