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During the winter of 1778, in the midst of revolution, a bizarre and dramatic court-martial forced an American community to confront the full implications of its independence from Great Britain―and produced a frank reexamination of a struggling nation’s cultural and political values. A master historian uncovers a spellbinding story illustrating the stakes for the new nation in the American War for Independence How does a new country demonstrate to the world that it is prepared to uphold the rule of law? British General John Burgoyne, a prisoner of war, accused an American colonel of mistreating fellow British prisoners. Angry and embarrassed after surrendering his army at Saratoga, he demanded an unprecedented full trial before an American jury.