| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War. By Wayne Bodle. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. xiv, 335 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-271-02230-2.)

Wayne Bodle's The Valley Forge Winter is the first comprehensive study of the Continental Army's most famous encampment, despite its prominence in Revolutionary War historiography and popular memory. Through a careful and thorough rereading of extensive primary sources, he challenges many accepted assumptions about Valley Forge and instead offers a fuller, more complex account. George Washington and his soldiers did not passively endure months of hardship from December 1777 to June 1778. Instead, "the army's relationship to its civilian host society and British foe, rather than being literary or allegorical, were intimate, material, complex, and fluid" (p. 5).

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