Braddock at the Monongahela

This book remains a classic on the infamous defeat of General Edward Braddock along the shores of the Monongahela River in his attempt to displace the French from the Forks on the Ohio (Pittsburgh today). The credits to the book read in part, "An original and important work.

The scholarship is of a high order, and the writing has both clarity and style. It is the best analysis yet of the source material on Braddock's defeat. It gathers together for the first time all the known eyewitness accounts of the defeat, including several that were previously unpublished or untranslated.” These first person accounts are what create, in part, other narrative books on the subject.
A great, in depth book with most interesting entries from both British and French persons directly involved in the engagement.

322 pp., 1977, paperback, $27.95.