I’m so pleased I won a copy of THE TUBMAN COMMAND. This is a well written book about an aspect of Harriet Tubman’s life I was not familiar with. I was aware of Tubman’s work with the Underground Railroad but not with her role as a spy for the Union troops. She devised the largest plantation raid of the Civil War to free slaves and recruit the men as soldiers for the Union. The way Elizabeth Cobbs wrote about Harriet really made her come alive to me as not only a heroic lady risking her life as a spy, but also as a very human one. This is shown in how she interacts with other characters in the book and her own words of frustrations at times. It would be hard not to admire Harriet Tubman with the dedication and courage she displayed in helping others.
Elizabeth Cobbs is a fine writer who presented her book in such a way that lends authenticity to what she is writing even though the reader knows parts of it are certainly fictionalized. I like the way she started each chapter with an epigram that was drawn from original documents. The book was intriguing, hard to put down , and filled with enough details to give the reader a clear picture of what was happening, but never sensationalized . This is an excellent book!
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