In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence. These brave men followed Washington when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Paperback, 386 pages, by David McCullough.