The Hessian (Paperback, New Ed)

"Is war merciless? Or are men merciless?" wonders compassionate Dr. Feversham and there are many homiletic variations on the theme ("War without charity is a ghastly thing" - "all war is murder") of this small story set during the Revolution in a small Connecticut town. A band of Hessians marches through it, hanging a native en route, and in reprisal an ambush is organized killing all but one, a "bellyful of slaughter." The survivor is the Hessian, a boy of 15 or 16, sheltered for a time by a Quaker family ("Yet thee live by sufferance even as I do") until his trial and execution, ordered by the closed-minded Squire Hunt, becomes inevitable. Mr. Fast espouses contemplative courage and edifying moments of decision from which you can draw a kind of old-fashioned universality and even extend it - to the recent Calley business. But essentially the book is the well-constructed, simple, and readable story he has been known to write through the years. (Kirkus Reviews)

"Fast is always a wonderful storyteller, and the story is a good one. ... Entertaining and memorable". -- Library Journal

General

Imprint:	M.E.Sharpe
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Howard Fast
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-56324-601-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	1-56324-601-5
Barcode:	9781563246012

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