John R. Maass is a staff member of the National Museum of the U.S. Army at Fort Belvoir. He received a BA in history from Washington and Lee University and a PhD in early American history at The Ohio State University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on early U.S. military history, including The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement (2020).

Historian John Maass brings closure to centuries of debate over the Revolutionary War's most crucial moments, in this original, penetrating, and highly readable analysis of the conflict's five great turning points.

• IntroductionTen Crucial Days: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, 1776-77Triumph in the Wilderness: The Saratoga Campaign, 1777The Army's Reformation: The Winter at Valley Forge, 1777-78Long, Bloody, and Severe: The Battle of Guildford Courthouse, 1781The Definitive Capitulation: The Yorktown, Campaign 1781ConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex

John R. Maass is a staff member of the National Museum of the U.S. Army at Fort Belvoir. He received a BA in history from Washington and Lee University and a PhD in early American history at The Ohio State University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on early U.S. military history, including The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement (2020).

Historian John Maass brings closure to centuries of debate over the Revolutionary War's most crucial moments, in this original, penetrating, and highly readable analysis of the conflict's five great turning points.

• IntroductionTen Crucial Days: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, 1776-77Triumph in the Wilderness: The Saratoga Campaign, 1777The Army's Reformation: The Winter at Valley Forge, 1777-78Long, Bloody, and Severe: The Battle of Guildford Courthouse, 1781The Definitive Capitulation: The Yorktown, Campaign 1781ConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex

John R. Maass is a staff member of the National Museum of the U.S. Army at Fort Belvoir. He received a BA in history from Washington and Lee University and a PhD in early American history at The Ohio State University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on early U.S. military history, including The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement (2020).

Historian John Maass brings closure to centuries of debate over the Revolutionary War's most crucial moments, in this original, penetrating, and highly readable analysis of the conflict's five great turning points.

• IntroductionTen Crucial Days: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, 1776-77Triumph in the Wilderness: The Saratoga Campaign, 1777The Army's Reformation: The Winter at Valley Forge, 1777-78Long, Bloody, and Severe: The Battle of Guildford Courthouse, 1781The Definitive Capitulation: The Yorktown, Campaign 1781ConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex