Sixteen year old Jenny Dolf hates being a girl. She resents the restrictions on her life, and she just feels wrong, and trapped, in her female's body. When the Revolution breaks out, she takes her father’s musket and poses as a boy named Jack, to join George Washington’s army on the heights of Long Island. From the first terrible losses, to the great victory at Trenton, in savage battles and long hard marches, Jack learns the value, and the cost, of freedom.
“Cecelia Holland knows history. More impressive is the way she understands human motivations. A wonderful writer.”
—David Drake
“Holland's grasp of both character and action is superb, and her ability to make the people of the past both fully human and intensely of their—deeply alien—settings is matchless."
—S. M. Stirling
Genre: Historical
“Cecelia Holland knows history. More impressive is the way she understands human motivations. A wonderful writer.”
—David Drake
“Holland's grasp of both character and action is superb, and her ability to make the people of the past both fully human and intensely of their—deeply alien—settings is matchless."
—S. M. Stirling
Genre: Historical
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