I havent read this but the consensus on my Seven Years War Living History FB page was that it was a good book. I must admit to thinking it was fiction when I saw it before!
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September 1756, fifty American soldiers set off on a routine
reconnaissance near Lake George, determined to safeguard the upper
reaches of the New York colony. Caught in a devastating ambush by French
and native warriors, only a handful of colonials made it back alive.
Toward the end of the French and Indian War, another group of survivors,
long feared dead, returned home, having endured years of grim captivity
among the native and French inhabitants of Canada.
Pieced together from archival records, period correspondence, and official reports, Hodges' Scout relates the riveting tale of young colonists who were tragically caught up in a war they barely understood. Len Travers brings history to life by describing the variety of motives that led men to enlist in the campaign and the methods and means they used to do battle. He also reveals what the soldiers wore, the illnesses they experienced, the terror and confusion of combat, and the bitter hardships of captivity in alien lands. His remarkable research brings human experiences alive, giving us a rare, full-color view of the French and Indian War--the first true world war.
Pieced together from archival records, period correspondence, and official reports, Hodges' Scout relates the riveting tale of young colonists who were tragically caught up in a war they barely understood. Len Travers brings history to life by describing the variety of motives that led men to enlist in the campaign and the methods and means they used to do battle. He also reveals what the soldiers wore, the illnesses they experienced, the terror and confusion of combat, and the bitter hardships of captivity in alien lands. His remarkable research brings human experiences alive, giving us a rare, full-color view of the French and Indian War--the first true world war.
I found it to be a particularly valuable look at Provincial soldiers in the F&I War. The "whodunnit" style the author uses to reconstruct the scout was interesting and original as well.
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