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Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true report of the spy band that helped America earn the Revolutionary War. For the very first time, Rose can take us beyond the battlefront and deep in to the shadowy underworld of two times brokers and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors-including the spymaster in the centre of everything.In the summertime of 1778, with the conflict poised to carefully turn in his favour, Basic George Washington frantically had a need to know where in fact the British would reach next. Compared to that end, he unleashed his hidden knowledge tool: an improbable band of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy's struggle plans and military services strategy. Washington's small group included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family commitment, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him stop working but who always came through in the long run. Privately guiding these imperfect each day heroes was Washington himself. Within an era when officials were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn't spy, he possessed an extraordinary ability for deception-and proven an adept spymaster. The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Diamond ring. The British magic formula service tried out to hunt them down, nonetheless they escaped by the closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, useless drops, and invisible ink. Rose's thrilling narrative tells the unknown report of the Revolution-the murderous intellect conflict, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners-that has never appeared in the history catalogs. But Washington's Spies is also a spirited, coming in contact with account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.
