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An excellent book by a scholar who has written extensively on the Middle Colonies and served for some years on the staff of the National Park Service at Valley Forge.... Bodle rescues Washington and his comrades-in-arms by looking at Valley Forge in the context of a nine-month campaign that began with British General Sir William Howe's invasion of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1777 and American reversals at Brandywine and Germantown.... As Wayne Bodie says, Valley Forge may offer fewer morality lessons for schoolchildren than previously believed, but it 'forged a temporal - and especially a spatial - template for the rest of the war in the north.' - Don Higginbotham, William and Mary Quarterly; [The Valley Forge Winter] is not a retelling of the quintessential American morality play of military virtue, stoicism, self-sacrifice, and eventual moral and battlefield triumph set against the backdrop of previous defeats and civilian neglect. Rather, it is a model study of war and society that argues convincingly for the Continental Army's service 'as a partial proxy for faltering civilian political legitimacy' in Revolutionary Pennsylvania.... This book is a welcome contribution that should be considered seriously by scholars and interested readers. - Ricardo A. Herrera, The Journal of Military History

"""An excellent book by a scholar who has written extensively on the Middle Colonies and served for some years on the staff of the National Park Service at Valley Forge.... Bodle rescues Washington and his comrades-in-arms by looking at Valley Forge in the context of a nine-month campaign that began with British General Sir William Howe's invasion of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1777 and American reversals at Brandywine and Germantown.... As Wayne Bodie says, Valley Forge may offer fewer morality lessons for schoolchildren than previously believed, but it 'forged a temporal - and especially a spatial - template for the rest of the war in the north.' "" - Don Higginbotham, William and Mary Quarterly; ""[The Valley Forge Winter] is not a retelling of the quintessential American morality play of military virtue, stoicism, self-sacrifice, and eventual moral and battlefield triumph set against the backdrop of previous defeats and civilian neglect. Rather, it is a model study of war and society that argues convincingly for the Continental Army's service 'as a partial proxy for faltering civilian political legitimacy' in Revolutionary Pennsylvania.... This book is a welcome contribution that should be considered seriously by scholars and interested readers."" - Ricardo A. Herrera, The Journal of Military History"""

""An excellent book by a scholar who has written extensively on the Middle Colonies and served for some years on the staff of the National Park Service at Valley Forge.... Bodle rescues Washington and his comrades-in-arms by looking at Valley Forge in the context of a nine-month campaign that began with British General Sir William Howe's invasion of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1777 and American reversals at Brandywine and Germantown.... As Wayne Bodie says, Valley Forge may offer fewer morality lessons for schoolchildren than previously believed, but it 'forged a temporal - and especially a spatial - template for the rest of the war in the north.' "" - Don Higginbotham, William and Mary Quarterly; ""[The Valley Forge Winter] is not a retelling of the quintessential American morality play of military virtue, stoicism, self-sacrifice, and eventual moral and battlefield triumph set against the backdrop of previous defeats and civilian neglect. Rather, it is a model study of war and society that argues convincingly for the Continental Army's service 'as a partial proxy for faltering civilian political legitimacy' in Revolutionary Pennsylvania.... This book is a welcome contribution that should be considered seriously by scholars and interested readers."" - Ricardo A. Herrera, The Journal of Military History""

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Wayne Bodle is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Pennsylvania History, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and The William and Mary Quarterly.

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