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Forty Minutes by the Delaware: The story of the Whitalls, Red Bank Plantation, and the battle for Fort Mercer

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This book was very easy to follow. I found it to be historically accurate and highly informative. From the very beginning the author has the reader very captivated. The book gave a complete view on not just the battle but how the people of that era lived. It gave a good human side to a major event in our history. Whoever reads this book will appreciate both sides of this war. And most importantly, this book stimulates the sense of heritage, pride, and the importance of preserving our valuable history. The statistics were also helpful for me, because for the first time I saw the correct numbers of troops involved in the Battle of Fort Mercer. This book was well done.

The conversational style of this fascinating history book made it more like listening to a good storyteller describe an event he'd actually witnessed. Too often history is written in such a dry style that reading it is like bushwhacking through facts. This book was so interesting I read it straight through and enjoyed it thoroughly. Although I walk at Red Bank Battlefield and have read many other essays and books on the battle, I NEVER understood what was actually happening there till I read this book. The details about the clothing and the people gave a rich context to the story. I bought Anderson's other book on the strength of this one!