"Historian and best selling author Thomas Fleming (The Officers' Wives, When This Cruel War Is Over) poses an intriguing question in his latest historical novel. What if the victorious Union had put Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on trial for treason? The civil War ignited passions on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Fleming imagines what might have happened if a group of Radical Republicans led by Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana to arrange a secret trial of Lee. Fleming's characters, both real and fictional, ring true. So does the dialogue. Readers will enjoy this captivating account of what would have been the trial of the century."
   Publishers Weekly

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SECRET WAR HAS WON THE FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM AWARD FOR 2006 FROM THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION

 "A superb retelling of the story of Valley Forge and its aftermath, demonstrating that reality is far more compelling than myth. In addition this utterly readable book offers important new insights into Washington's political sagacity as he struggled for leadership of the Continental Army."
   Gordon Wood
   Professor of History,  Brown University

"At last! The true history of Valley Forge! Thomas Fleming's brilliant work strips the mythology from this critical event in American history and exposes the profiteers, incompetents and enemies of liberty who transformed an ordinary Valley Forge winter into a hell unwarranted by weather or supply shortages. Mr. Fleming's penetrating portrait of Washington reveals a gifted political as well as military leader, who turned disaster into personal as well as national glory."
   Harlow Unger,  Author of The French War Against America

"Majestic...A chronicle of love-repressed, frustrated, lost, finally exploding...."

 Frank McCourt,  Publishers Weekly