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Title: The Too Friendly Hessians
Review: This short book goes through a day of war with a young kid. It's a fairly good story but it needed to say "this is the Revolutionary War." Young kids wouldn't necessarily understand that from the dates of the book.The first half has a lot of good detail, such as the heaviness of the gun that Jonathan, the 13 year old boy, is carrying, and how hard it is to load it. The second half is unrealistic. Jonathan is a prisoner to the Hessians. Later they all fall asleep and Jonathan escapes back to the Americans. For half of the book he is fighting for the Americans, for the other half he is doing good deeds for the other side. I feel that this book does not show what would happen in a real war.
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