PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Dean Snow is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Penn State University and past president of the Society for American Archaeology. His previous books include Archaeology of Native North America and The Iroquois.
An easy-reading and well-structured look at the battles that produced the British defeat. * Washington Free Beacon * In his latest book, Snow takes a magnifying glass to the Saratoga campaign.... [He] presents Horatio Gates and John Burgoyne not as competing chess players but as complex individuals immersed in a larger group of individuals who struggle with social politics, ambiguous authority structures, and subordinates with mixed motives and loyalties.... Snow's narrative keeps readers engaged, start to finish. * Library Journal * As the action builds and the characters come into focus, readers will get caught up in their hopes and frustrations.... Military history lovers will appreciate Snow's explanations of how battles are fought. * Kirkus Reviews * [Dean Snow's] profiles of protagonists...bring the battle to life. * The New York Times * An exceptionally detailed narrative, following events day by day and, as the action intensifies, hour by hour. This chronological structure has the merit of making sense of a campaign for which the evidence is often complex and contradictory. The result is a vivid, almost novelistic, account. * Wall Street Journal *
