Montcalm and Wolfe

A century and a half ago, Francis Parkman re-created the epic struggle for North America with a novelist’s eye and a scholar’s precision. Montcalm and Wolfe—his crowning work—brings to life the French and Indian War, from the clash of empires in the Ohio Valley to the unforgettable Battle of the Plains of Abraham. This faithful modern-English edition preserves Parkman’s sweeping narrative while softening his nineteenth-century prose, making his history accessible for today’s reader. Here you will meet the brilliant but doomed Marquis de Montcalm, the ambitious young General James Wolfe, and the native peoples and colonial settlers caught between them. It is a story of courage, tragedy, and the forging of a continent. Part of The Modern Wisdom Library.