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Cargando... The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washingtonpor Charles Rosenberg
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is an alternative history book, wherein George Washington is kidnapped by the British during the American Revolutionary War and taken back to England to stand trial as a traitor. I found it quite entertaining, and the legal proceedings were interesting. ( ) Did you know that their was actually a plot to kidnap George Washington during the American Revolution? This book takes this idea and expands it to a what if. What if Washington was actually kidnaped from under the noses of his troops by the British, helped by the Tories, who still held allegience to King George III. Would the Tories even agree to let Washington be taken to England or would they demand that he be killed forthwith. The fighting in the thirteen colonies was not a story book war, but a fierce and bloody conflict that set neighbors against neighbors and often split families in their loyalties. Atrocities occurred far to frequently on both sides of the conflict. Benjamin Franklin’s son did not share his father’s radical views and remained loyal to the King. This was a split that Franklin never resolved with his son. Even if Washington was taken to England, would he be hanged as a traitor to the King or would he be used as a pawn to try to end a war that was draining the English treasury and costing the lives of so many of her soldiers? The novel gives a very good account of the events of the times and the divided loyalty that split the nations. I found myself eager for the British special agent, Jeremiah Black to complete his mission to kidnap Washington, while seeing to it that no harm would come to the General until he was returned to England for trial. A very intriguing what if tale of the birth of our nation. At the time of the American Revolution, a British agent is commissioned by Prime Minister North to infiltrate the rebel lines, kidnap General George Washington, and bring him to London to face trial for treason. Abraham Hobhouse, an American attorney living in the British capital, married to the boss's daughter, is engaged by Ethan Abbott, who has been sent by the Continental Congress, to defend Washington. But whereas Lord North constructed this gambit as a way to hasten the end of the rebellion in America, there are forces at work conspiring to see Washington declared guilty...and executed. Can the efforts of Abbott and Hobhouse save the General? -- I found the situation in this book of vastly greater interest than its execution (pardon the unintentional pun). The functioning of the royal government, as well as the methods of British jurisprudence, were rather fascinating. The story keeps moving, but I found the characters (even His Excellency, George Washington) rather flat. The plot resolution owes a great deal to Mr. Dickens methinks... Still, enjoyable enough to merit the three stars -- not the worst book I've ever read, to be sure, but... sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King's Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780. The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked. Black is here to change all that. His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore. Once he lands, though, the "aid by Loyalists" proves problematic because some would prefer just to kill the general outright. Black manages--just--to get Washington aboard the Peregrine, which sails away. Upon their arrival in London, Washington is imprisoned in the Tower to await trial on charges of high treason. England's most famous barristers seek to represent him but he insists on using an American. He chooses Abraham Hobhouse, an American-born barrister with an English wife--a man who doesn't really need the work and thinks the "career-building" case will be easily resolved through a settlement of the revolution and Washington's release. But as greater political and military forces swirl around them and peace seems ever more distant, Hobhouse finds that he is the only thing keeping Washington from the hangman's noose. Drawing inspiration from a rumored kidnapping plot hatched in 1776 by a member of Washington's own Commander-in-Chief Guard, Charles Rosenberg has written a compelling novel that envisions what would take place if the leader of America's fledgling rebellion were taken from the nation at the height of the war, imperiling any chance of victory."--Amazon. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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