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Yancey County Author to
Release Book and Host a Book Signing

Pictured above is Yancey County author Charles F. Price. Price's new book Nor the Battle to the Strong: A Novel of the American Revolution in the South, is set to be released on July 4th.

Yancey County author Charles F. Price's new novel Nor the Battle to the Strong: A Novel of the American Revolution in the South is set to be released on July 4.

Will have a signing on Friday, July 11, he will give a reading and sign books at Blue Moon Books in Spruce Pine from 4 to 7; and on Saturday, July 26, at The Design Gallery in Burnsville from 10 am to noon.

Here is a bit about the book:

A sweeping narrative covering a little known but crucial period of the Revolutionary War, Nor the Battle to the Strong tells the separate but ultimately intertwined stories of two compelling characters, vastly different in background and outlook, but destined to strive together in the last great pitched battle for American independence .
 
Major General Nathanael Greene, Rhode Island－born, Quaker-bred commander of the Southern Continental Army, conducts an arduous campaign to reduce a series of British posts in South Carolina during the fateful summer of 1781, while, in Virginia, Private James Johnson, Scottish immigrant and runaway indentured servant, serves as a Continental infantryman in the maneuvering of Lafayette's army against Cornwallis. Recruited into the dragoon service, Johnson travels South and joins Greene's army in time for the battle of Eutaw Springs, one of the bloodiest actions of the war.
 
The contrasting perspectives of Greene and Johnson give the reader a vivid understanding of the American Revolution, both from the command level and through the eyes of the ordinary soldier. The novel probes our nation's earliest history with a post-911 sensibility. What values animated those who founded the United States? Are we the unworthy inheritors of their noble legacy? Or are we―and were they―merely human; and is it the purpose of history to put our humanity constantly to the test?

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