These are awesome adventure stories. And they're 100% true.
Thomas B. Allen makes James Bond look lame next to these guys.
And the books (George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War and Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War) are even cooler--not only are there secret messages in the gutters for you to decode, there are appendixes, end notes, bibliographies and further reading.
End notes! With in-text numbers to reference them. End notes! In a juvie nonfiction book. Be still my fluttering, dorky heart.
I mean, I always knew these guys did cool things. There's a reason we still talk about them. I didn't quite appreciate how much they kicked ass.
I highly recommend for everyone.
2 comments:
Wow, these books really do sound cool...my 7th-grader is going to love them because she is a huge history buff! I wonder what other books they have in the series?
Thank you very much for bringing them to our attention, Jennie!
As far as I am aware, these are the only books in the series so far. Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent is relatively new though (my library just got it in June) so I'm hoping there will be more!
I highly recommend these books. Anything to make George Washington look less stoic. We so often forget that before he was the "Father of the Country" (well, my country, anyway) he was a rebel leader.
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