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Author Rose, Alexander, 1971- author.

Title Washington's spies : the story of America's first spy ring / Alexander Rose.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Bantam Books, [2007]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E279 .R67 2007    Available  ---  Gift of Dr. Brooke B. Hunter
Edition Bantam trade paperback edition.
Description 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-361) and index.
Summary In the summer of 1778, General Washington needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy's battle plans. Washington's band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged to let him retire but always came through in the end. Personally guiding these everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn't spy, he possessed a talent for deception--and proved an adept spymaster. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. Historian Rose tells an unknown story of the Revolution--the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners--that has never appeared in the history books.--From publisher description.
Contents "As subtil & deep as hell itself": Nathan Hale and the spying game -- The year of the hangman -- Genesis of the Culper ring -- 711 and the sympathetic stain -- The man of parts and halves -- The adventure of the Culper ring -- On His Majesty's secret service -- Spyhunters and whaleboatmen -- The wilderness of mirrors -- Epilogue: "Lord, now lettest thou thy servants depart in peace."
Provenance Gift of Dr. Brooke B. Hunter
Subject Secret service.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Secret service.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Military intelligence.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Spies -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Spies.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Spies -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Military intelligence -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Military intelligence.
Espionage -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Espionage.
New York (State) -- New York.
American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783)
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form History.
Biographies.
ISBN 0553383299
9780553383294