The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson, author of eight narrative histories spanning five American wars, returns with the second volume of his American Revolution trilogy, The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780, a #1 New York Times nonfiction bestseller. Praised by The New York Times Book Review as “great history,” and hailed by Ken Burns as “among the greatest of all historians,” Atkinson chronicles the Revolution’s most perilous years.

As George Washington struggles to sustain a fragile army and Benjamin Franklin courts French support abroad, the fight for independence teeters on collapse. Facing the relentless resolve of George III, Americans endure devastating defeats, hard-won victories, and the brutal winter at Valley Forge, an epic test of sacrifice, endurance, and the birth of a nation.

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