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The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
The Fort A Novel of the Revolutionary War
Author: Bernard Cornwell
In the summer of 1779, as the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South, a British force consisting of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry and backed by three sloops-of-war sails to the fogbound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts, the Scots ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780062010872
ISBN-10: 0062010875
Publication Date: 1/3/2012
Pages: 496
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
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If you like historical battles, this book is for you! It gives you a feel for what it was really like to be a soldier during the Revolutionary War.
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If you are expecting something in the style of Cornwell's Sharpe series, you'll be very disappointed. This novel, while based on an historical event, is full of meaningless, boring dialogue, page after page of it. I got to page 130-something and called it quits, as I couldn't see myself reading another 300 pages of uninspired filler.


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