About the Author

Lee McCardell worked as a newspaer reporter for over thirty years, and was head of The Sun London Bureau during the Second World War, and later became assistant manging editor of The Evening Sun.

Reviews

A first-rate biography.-- "New York Times"

A genial and readable interpretation that will revivify an important figure in early American history. It is the kind of well-documented book that will appeal to both the general reader and the historian.-- "American Historical Review"

Braddock was the first English general that Americans had ever seen in action, and although he lost his life fighting for them, they detested him. . . . What [McCardell] has done is to replace a historical puppet with a credible human being, and . . . to explain how a carefully planned colonial expedition can go wrong.-- "New Yorker"

Here, in a rare combination of documented fact and good storytelling is the biography of an often neglected man who lived during one of history's most vital eras.-- "Booklist"

The breadth, depth, and care of McCardell's reasearch on Ill-Starred General are amazing and delightful. He has labored with that fidelity which every honest historian must display and with that luck which crowns the efforts of the fortunate.-- "Pittsburgh Press"

This is history, but in Mr. McCardell's skilled hands it reads like a novel.-- "St. Louis Globe-Democrat"