The 7 Years War: A World Set Ablaze (Part 1)

Before he was the marble man on the money, George Washington was a twenty-two-year-old Virginia militia officer with more ambition than judgment, standing in a rain-soaked hollow in western Pennsylvania watching something happen that he did not order and could not stop. Ten French soldiers were dead. Their commander had been carrying a diplomatic summons that nobody read. And within two years, the consequences of that morning were being fought out on the Elbe and the Ganges, in the sugar isla...