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TURNCOATS, TRAITORS AND HEROES by John Bakeless

TURNCOATS, TRAITORS AND HEROES

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Pub Date: Jan. 6th, 1959
Publisher: Lippincott

An excellent supplement to the study of American history, John Bakeless writes of spies, both British and American, during the American War for Independence. Narrow escapes, successes and failures,- most of this is based on papers of Sir Henry Clinton of the British army- it is revealed that many respected Americans spied for the British. Ann Bates, Benedict Arnold, Nathan Hale, Lydia Darragh, Enoch Crosby, a whole retinue of known and unknown figures whose exploits should appeal both to spy story addicts and to students of American history.