The Glorious Cause: A Novel of the American Revolution »

The son of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Shaara (The Killer Angels), Jeff Shaara completed his father's Civil War trilogy with Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, and went on to earn acclaim as an author of historical novels that document and dramatize the events that formed the foundation of our country.

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure.

Book Magazine

By now history buffs know just what to expect from bestselling author Shaara elegantly spun campfire yarns about the pivotal battles in American military history. Shaara's latest novel is the sure-handed sequel to Rise to Rebellion , a fictionalized account of the events that precipitated the Revolution of 1776. The author's core audience is well aware of the particulars of the rebellion Washington's morale-boosting surprise attacks on the British and their allies at Princeton and Trenton, for instance, after the ragtag army's disheartening retreat out of Manhattan. Shaara's trademark approach imagining the internal dialogue of the "great men" of history works wonderfully with this information. "If God has any mercy for our cause," Washington thinks, surveying his wretched, freezing troops just before the Trenton raid, "let these men have their one good day." That's uplifting stuff for a nightstand page-turner. Author James Sullivan