By Benson Bobrick.  ISBN: 0-689-86422-1. Copyright 2004.  Hardcover with 96 pages including glossary, bibliography, American Revolution sites on the web, index, and 85 full color maps and illustrations.   

Renowned historian Benson Bobrick has written a moving chronicle of the American Revolution for young readers.  From the first stirrings of unrest under British rule at the Boston Tea Party, to the treachery of Benedict Arnold at West Point, to George Washington’s Christmas Eve surprise attack at the Battle of Trenton, to the British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown, “Fight for Freedom” explores the war that created one independent nation out of thirteen diverse colonies.  For ages 8 through adult.