Saving Washington, Chris Formant
Saving Washington, Chris Formant
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Saving Washington
The Forgotten Story of the Maryland 400 and The Battle of Brooklyn

Author: Chris Formant

Narrator: Michael Crouch

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/19/2019

Synopsis

The lost story of “America’s 400 Spartans”—an army of unexpected heroes who changed the course of history.On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, four hundred men from Baltimore, Maryland assembled to do battle against a vastly superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers had matured from naïve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of American history: “America’s 400 Spartans.”Saving Washington follows young Joshua Bolton and his childhood friend Ben, a freed black man, as they witness British tyranny firsthand, become enraptured by the cause, and ultimately enlist to defend their new nation in a battle that galvanized the American nation on the eve of its birth. Chris Formant’s gripping tale blends real-life historical figures and events with richly developed fictional characters in a multi-dimensional world of intrigue, romance, comradeship, and sacrifice, transporting us two-and-a-half centuries back in time to the bustling streets of Baltimore and the bloody, smoke-filled carnage of battle in Brooklyn.

About Chris Formant

Novelist Chris Formant is a student of history and former top president of a multi-billion-dollar global business. Formant is an unlikely author of historical fiction, but the heroic story of Maryland’s forgotten 400 drove him to assemble an expert team to conduct painstaking research and then write the novel Saving Washington.His debut novel, Bright Midnight, received lavish praise and has been dubbed the “Da Vinci Code for Rock and Roll Fans.” In the work, Formant created a unique mystery in which he re-imagined the deaths of rock icons as murders.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sibil on May 24, 2019

Thanks to Netgalley and to the editor. I received this book in exchange for an honest review I was really curious about this book because I am quite ignorant on the matter and I wanted to know more. And here the author asks himself why a lot of young guys have chosen to go to war? How did that happe......more

Goodreads review by Paige on August 05, 2019

Disclaimer: I received this book from the publishing company. Thanks! All opinions are my own. Book Series: Standalone Rating: 3/5 Diversity: One of the main characters is African-American Publication Date: February 19, 2019 Genre: Historical Fiction Recommended Age: 18+ (violence, war, gore) Publisher: Pe......more

Goodreads review by Lora on February 14, 2019

An action-filled and fast-paced book, especially the last half which describes the actual battle. This is a fictional account of the battle of Brooklyn in the Revolutionary War, a battle that is not often mentioned even in histories of the Revolution, and about which not much is actually known even t......more

Goodreads review by Bookroomreviews.com on November 21, 2018

As someone who loves reading Historical Fiction. My favorite subject being American History I could not wait to dive into this book. I of course knew all about George Washington’s army escape from New York at the beginning of the American Revolution.At least I thought I did. It must be admitted I wa......more

Goodreads review by Dwina on December 31, 2018

Saving Washington by Chris Formant was a fascinating read. Until I read this fictional account,.I was not aware of the Maryland 400 or of the pivitol role the Battle of Brooklyn played in the Revolutionary War. Josh and Ben, the protagonists, are fictional characters but others characters in the boo......more

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