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The Hessian

Howard Fast

1972192 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1972
first published
  • 1972Morrow · 192 pages · ENG
  • 1973Hodder and Stoughton · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780340165614
  • 1973G. K. Hall · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780816161140
  • 1974Coronet · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780340187883
  • 1984Inner Circle · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9781850180067
  • 1996M.E. Sharpe · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9781563246012
  • 1984Aims Intl Books Corp · ENGISBN 9788401490095
  • 1972William Morrow & Co · ENGISBN 9780688000530

When his entire brigade is wiped out by the colonists, a sixteen-year-old German drummer boy survives with the aid of a Quaker family and the local doctor.

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