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Thomas Fleming: Wins award for book about Valley Forge

Tom Fleming, the author of more than 40 books, has won the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge.

The award goes each year to the"author of the best, newly published work on the American Revolutionary period."

Previous winners include David Hackett Fischer and Joseph Ellis.