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Turncoats, Traitors And Heroes (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press ed)
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Even those well-read in the American Revolution are probably
unaware of the extensive and often crucial espionage developed by
both the British and Continental armies during the conflict.
Besides reexamining in fresh perspective such well-known figures as
Paul Revere, Nathan Hale, Benedict Arnold, and John Andre, the
author, a former general staff intelligence officer in World War
II, reveals the exploits and tribulations of scores of other spies:
Ann Bates, the Tory agent who spied at Washington's headquarters
and who, when fleeing for her life, paused to count American
artillery; the high-ranking traitor Dr. Benjamin Church, the
Continental Army's Director General of Hospitals, caught as a
result of a careless mistress; Lydia Darragh, the Quaker housewife
who spied for Washington himself; Sergeant Major John Champe, who
posed as a deserter from the rebel army in order to capture
Benedict Arnold; and many others. From the plot to kidnap George
Washington to the fall of Yorktown, here are the clandestine
activities of the spies, counterspies, and double agents who risked
life and honor fighting a silent, anonymous shadow war.
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