Washington’s Crossing.

FISCHER, David Hackett.

Item Number: 1320

New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles in gilt. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by David Hackett Fischer on the title page.

"Fisher's thoughtful account describes how Washington, in a frantic, desparate month, turned his collection of troops into a professional force, not by emulating Europeans but by coming up with a model that was distinctly American" (The New Yorker).