Attention Grades 6-9: Author Claims Spying Won The Revolutionary War
In debating political issues and personalities, adults sometimes lose sight of the fact that a generation of future voters is eager to learn its way to voterhood. Political Books is committed to reviewing worthy books for young people as well as old. In George Washington, Spymaster: How Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War, author Thomas B. Allen argues that spying was unusually easy for the colonists because both sides spoke the same language and wore similar clothing.
Washington had learned the value of good intelligence during the French and Indian War while serving in the Virginia militia. But spying had its dark side too; Washington wept upon learning that Benedict Arnold had betrayed the colonial cause. America's successes included Ben Franklin's efforts to make France an American ally and the intelligence that let the French Navy to help force the British to surrender at Yorktown.
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