War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

by John F. Ross

In a riveting biography, author John F. Ross reconstructs the extraordinary achievements of this fearless and inspiring leader whose exploits in the early New England wilderness read like those of an action hero and whose innovative principles of unconventional warfare are still used today.

In War on the Run, Ross vividly re-creates Rogers’s life and his spectacular battles, having traveled over much of Rogers’s campaign country. He presents with breathtaking immediacy and painstaking accuracy a man and an era whose enormous influence on America has been too little appreciated.

Paperback, 2009, 549 pages, maps, biblio, index, illustl, $20.00.