"Decent book about Trenton / Princeton" Topic

Could you recomment a good book about Trenton / Princeton campaign ?
I should be modern, with detailed maps and focussed on battles (including second Trenton).
Kind of Babits' "Long obstinate and bloody"

"Washington's Crossing" by Fischer is very good with all you require.
Stryker's book set the standard.

Have to second Winston's fine recommendation.

Two best books are Samuel Smith's The battle of Trenton/The Battle of Princeton. Very well research and written books that use primary sources. They are short but excellent. Here is a review and recommendations:

"Samuel Smith's books on Trenton and Princeton are highly accurate monographs, based on careful research in American primary materials and excellent use of Hessian transcripts. . . . For readers who want to know how the battles actually happened, the books are valuable for their careful construction of events. The inquiry is tightly centered on questions of descriptive fact. Interpretative statements are carefully balanced, and judgments are mature and restrained."—David Hackett Fisher in Washington's Crossing

I bought all three when I started researching these battles and they are all good books. Stryker has amazing detail and excellent maps. I believe that you can download a free copy of Stryker from Google Books.

Yes, the Stryker tome is very good – however, be warned that his book on Monmouth is not. Unfortunately, Stryker died before he had written the chapters on the battle itself, and these were finished off (in every sense of the term) by an editor who hadn't a clue what he was doing. Thus, that section of the book is a mish-mash of duplication of some events, and transporting of others to the wrong times/parts of the battlefield.

I've downloaded Stryker's book and found it so excellent that I'm now considering printing it and get binded.

I also consider buying "Washington's Crossing" but being a Pullitzer prize winner isn't best recomendation for me. Please tell me how much is this book about military rather than political history.
There is also 15 maps inside. How many are devoted to battles ? Is there more than one map for each of three battles described ?

I recommend "Washington's Crossing," as well.

In my opinion---'Washington's Crossing' is an excellent book on the Trenton/Princeton Campaign.

Also, if you are ever looking for a board game of that same campaign, I highly recommend 'Washington's Crossing', by Revolution Games. It is a bit difficult, but plays well.
Tom Semian
Avalon, Pa. 15202

Concur on Monmouth. As you read it, it's almost like the writer undergoes a complete personality change (and lack of interest in accuracy).

That is a shame about Stryker's book on Monmouth. I was at the battlefield a few weeks ago. The people at the Park said Osprey was the best book on the battle. They had copies of other studies including Stryker. To me if Osprey is the best thing out, there isn't much.

Had a hard time finding Stryker's book on Trenton and Princeton. Is it in Google books?

Never mind. I got it….👍

Reprints aside, the Osprey is the only book written specifically on the battle in the past 40 years, since the S S Smith monograph in 1975, in fact. You have to go back almost another 50 years before Smith, to 1927, to find the next previous one, which was Stryker's work; unfortunately, Smith used Stryker a lot.

Dr Garry Stone, the historian and curator of the battlefield park, was working on his own magnum opus about a decade ago, but it has not yet appeared for some reason (according to the author's acknowledgement, he also proof-read the Osprey prior to publication, so it should at least be accurate).