Description: 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.
Brief description: Len Travers is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is the author of Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic.
Review Quotes: Overall, Travers succeeds in using Hodges's scout to recover the common soldier's experience in war and captivity. . . this book is a tale well told, one that uses the experiences of a small number of mostly anonymous men to deepen our understanding of how the Seven Years' War transformed the individual and collective lives of New England soldiers.
--American Historical Review