Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge.

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Beat the Last Drum: The Siege of Yorktown 1781.Washington, DC: Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Cowpens: 'Downright Fighting': the Story of Cowpens.įleming died at his home in New York City on July 23, 2017, at the age of 90. There's throat-cutting careerism, hostility from the civilian community, and always the possibility that at the bottom line, there's going to be a body bag. These guys have this ideal of duty, honor, country, but in the real world, in the Army, a lot of other things are going on. That was my first really strong exposure to America's secular idealism. He said, 'I never wanted to be an Irish-American writer, my whole idea was to get across that bridge and be an American writer'.

He also wrote about other periods of American history, and wrote over a dozen well-received novels set against various historical backgrounds. įleming published books about various events and figures of the Revolutionary era. He lived in New York with his wife, Alice, a writer of books for young people. Fleming also spent ten years as chairman of the New York American Revolution Round Table and was an Honorary Member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati since 1975. While in the navy, he served aboard the USS Topeka (CL-67).įleming served as president of the Society of American Historians and the PEN American Center. Peter's Preparatory School in 1945 and from Fordham University in 1950, serving a year in the United States Navy before he started college. His work reflects a particular interest on the American Revolution, with titles such as Liberty! The American Revolution And The Future Of America, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the History of America and Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge.Ī native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Fleming graduated from St. Thomas James Fleming (J– July 23, 2017) was an American historian and historical novelist and the author of over forty nonfiction and fiction titles. Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge

The Great Divide by Thomas Fleming