This week, we feature collected tales of the estimable sleuth Father Brown and a history of an overlooked but crucial Revolutionary War battle.
History ‘Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle’
By Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone
There are numerous battles in the Revolutionary War that can be considered turning points, such as Bunker Hill, Trenton and Princeton, Saratoga, and Yorktown. As consequential as those battles were, there is another that is as significant yet less understood: the Battle of Monmouth. Lender and Stone demonstrate how this battle played out militarily, and, more importantly, how it played out politically for George Washington. Full of insightful material, this book proves to be an important work….