George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster

Nagy, John A

ISBN 10: 1250144922 / ISBN 13: 9781250144928

Published by Griffin, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster
• Publisher: Griffin
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250144922
• ISBN 13: 9781250144928
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Now in paperback, the untold story of how George Washington, a Virginia farmer, became the eighteenth century’s greatest and America’s first spymaster.

George Washington’s Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day in the Revolutionary War. Author John A. Nagy has become the nation’s leading expert on the subject, discovering hundreds of spies who went behind enemy lines to gather intelligence during the American Revolution, many of whom are completely unknown to most historians.

Using George Washington’s diary as the primary source, Nagy tells the story of Washington’s experiences during the French and Indian War and his first steps in the field of espionage. Despite what many believe, Washington did not come to the American Revolution completely unskilled in this area of warfare. He used espionage to level the playing field and then exploited it on to final victory.

Filled with thrilling and never-before-told stories from the battlefield and behind enemy lines, this is the story of how Washington out-spied the British. For the first time, readers will discover how espionage played a major part in the American Revolution and why Washington was a master at orchestrating it.

About the Author

JOHN A. NAGY was a Scholar-in-Residence at Saint Francis University and a consultant on espionage to The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington and the William L. Clement Library. He was the program director for the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia and was awarded a Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies fellowship to study Thomas Jefferson and cryptology. John was an award-winning author of four books on the American Revolution. He passed away in 2016 after completing George Washington's Secret Spy War.