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America's founding fathers were about to write the Declaration of Independence, and 16-year-old Joseph Martin was already volunteering for the motley crew that called itself the Continental Army.

Joseph Martin's Memoirs is the only text about the American War of Independence written by a private soldier who fought it almost from beginning to end. Vivid short flashes of battle, and in between - long, hungry days, full of cold, disease and endless exhausting transitions. This is the story of how the naked, barefoot soldiers of a young state fight back against a well-trained and equipped imperial army. Because nothing is impossible when you defend what is yours.