Friederike Baer

Prisoners of War, Reviews, The War Years (1775-1783) August 22, 2022 September 5, 2022

Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War

by Richard F. Welch

BOOK REVIEW: Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War by Friederike Baer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022) Writing a detailed, authoritative account of the…

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