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

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the bestselling author of The British Are Coming George Washington’s army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat. “This is great history . . . compulsively readable . . . There is no better writer of narrative history than the Pulitzer Prize–winning Atkinson.” —The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) The first twenty-one months of the American Revolution—which began at Lexington and ended at Princeton—was the story of a ragged group of militiamen and soldiers fighting to forge a new nation. By the winter of 1777 the exhausted Continental Army could claim only that it had barely escaped annihilation by the world’s most formidable fighting force. Two years into the war George III is as determined as ever to bring his rebellious colonies to heel. But the king’s task is now far more complicated: fighting a determi