Peter Marshall

In 1777, during the War for Independence, Nate Donovan is the younger brother in an Irish Quaker family in British-occupied Philadelphia. He is too young to join the Continental Army that is fighting for Americas freedom, but when the war comes through the Donovans front door, Nate becomes the youngest member of General George Washingtons spy network. Dangerous? If Nate and his Indian friend, Running Fox, are caught as spies the penalty is death by...

"A sumptuously written people's history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history--the first major overview for general readers in a generation--argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various...

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