“Invites comparison with Crane’s Red Badge of Courage . . . Ithink this is an even better book.”—The New York Times
When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder aches from your musket’s kick and the tight, disciplined red column bleeds and wavers and breaks and you begin to shout at the top of your lungs because you are there, at the birth of freedom—you're a veteran of the Battle of Lexington, and you’ve helped whip the King’s best soldiers...
- ISBN10 0553241613
- ISBN13 9780553241617
- Publish Date 1 November 1983 (first published 1 October 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 May 2021
- Imprint Bantam Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English