VALLEY FORGE

This is sub-titled ""The Making of an Army""- and in the text, an historian welds together those segments of what seem disconnected campaigns and interludes of waiting which comprised the long, grim months from the crossing of the Delaware and the surprise attack which marked a turning point of the war, and the post Valley Forge victories which brought ultimate capitulation of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Authoritative and eminently readable history.