The Hessian

By: Howard Fast

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Paperback | 30 June 1996 | Edition Number 1

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194 Pages

Age
18

Dimensions(cm)
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.04

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Telling the story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. This novel provides an opportunity to explore the difficult moral positions of war, along with the complications of the Quaker family who hid and sheltered the boy.

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"Is war merciless? Or are men merciless?" wonders compassionate Dr. Feversham and there are many homiletic variations on the theme ("War without charity is a ghastly thing" - "all war is murder") of this small story set during the Revolution in a small Connecticut town. A band of Hessians marches through it, hanging a native en route, and in reprisal an ambush is organized killing all but one, a "bellyful of slaughter." The survivor is the Hessian, a boy of 15 or 16, sheltered for a time by a Quaker family ("Yet thee live by sufferance even as I do") until his trial and execution, ordered by the closed-minded Squire Hunt, becomes inevitable. Mr. Fast espouses contemplative courage and edifying moments of decision from which you can draw a kind of old-fashioned universality and even extend it - to the recent Calley business. But essentially the book is the well-constructed, simple, and readable story he has been known to write through the years. (Kirkus Reviews)

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