There's some Revolutionary reading coming your way this week
Colin Dwyer
NPR
It must be something of a deflating time for Revolutionary War reenactors. The 250th anniversary of the war's opening shots at Lexington came and went earlier this month. And while the date was certainly commemorated with gusto, there won't be another major battle to reenact until June, at the earliest.
Fortunately there's consolation on this week's publishing calendar: The second volume in Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson's planned trilogy on the American Revolution. The Fate of the Daycovers the war's middle years, which were rife with the kinds of pivotal scenes — such as the Battles of Saratoga and the long winter at Valley Forge — that may tide over even the most impatient Revolution buffs among us.
