A Forgotten American Military Disaster In Our Own Back Yard: Book Review of Bernard Cornwell’s The Fort

The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
by Bernard Cornwell
HarperCollins
2010
Bernard Cornwall, the author of The Fort, is the current undisputed master of historical fiction. He has written more than 40 historical novels, including twenty in the famed Richard Sharpe series, chronicling Sharpe's rise in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars; and thirteen in The Last Kingdom series, describing England in the days of Alfred the Great in the ninth and tenth centuries. Both have been made into TV mini-series.