April Morning - Howard Fast

"Invites comparison with Crane's Red Badge of Courage . . . Ithink this is an even better book."-The New York Times

When you read this novel about April 19, 1775,
you will see the British redcoats
marching in a
solid column through your town. Your hands will be
sweating and you
will shake a little as you grip your
musket because never have you shot with the
aim of
killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again
and again while your
shoulder aches from your
musket's kick and the tight, disciplined red column
bleeds
and wavers and breaks and you begin to shout
at the top of your lungs because you
are there, at
the birth of freedom-you're a veteran of the
Battle of Lexington,
and you've helped whip the
King's best soldiers...