Stories of Faith and Courage from the Revolutionary War
By Jane Hampton Cook

Battlefields and Blessings Series, Publisher: Living Ink Books
ISBN-10: 0-89957-042-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-89957-042-6
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All they wanted was to pursue happiness by running their businesses, managing their farms and raising their families. They would have been content to die quietly and anonymously. Instead George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and countless others found themselves living loudly for liberty. Through a 365-day digest, Battlefields and Blessings: Stories of Faith and Courage from the Revolutionary War takes you from the starting point to the finishing line in America's quest for Independence, revealing the Revolution was more than just a war, it was a changing of hearts and minds. Each week features five captivating stories based on original letters and documents from heroes such as Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, and Abigail Adams. 

Most Revolutionary War books give you the military strategy or the political struggles of independence. Battlefields and Blessings gives you all that plus something unique: the pulpit perspective. Each week features a sermon from the time period, revealing issues that are strikingly familiar such as "Does faith allow for taking up arms and fighting?" or "What does it mean to have integrity in leadership?"  Another weekly feature, "The Revolution Today" also takes issues common in the Revolution, including contentment, and applies it to today. What makes this book relevant is its ability to connect readers to our nation's roots of freedom, something essential to supporting our service men and women today as they continue the Revolution by living loudly for liberty.

Review of Stories of Faith and Courage from the Revolutionary War
by Corry, Washington DC

“Jane Hampton Cook does not know she is a magician. Generally, I don't like to read and history is a topic that is low on my list. I thought perhaps I could read this book since it was a gift and it had stories, essays and writings that were short, very short, which is a good recipe for me. But there were a lot of them so I began slowly. Amazingly I was caught up in the sights, sounds, conversation and convictions of the colonists in such a manner that I thought I was there.

But her tools were not secret concoctions and potions, instead she transformed the theater-of-my-mind through the writings, short writings mind you, of the colonists themselves. Not through Op-Eds but by presenting the actual words and thoughts written by those individuals who were experiencing the search of unencumbered life, simple liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Ms. Cook waved the magic wand of eye witness accounts that revealed the full spectrum of triumph, defeat and the boundless hope of those who demonstrated faith and courage in the revolutionary quest for "a separate and equal station" from England . As I followed the persevering trail of those pioneers of liberty I lost track of the shortness of the stories.

But I digress. You MUST read the book and take the journey - Abra Ka Dabra.”