| The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent—a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing. Based on a wide variety of sources and alive with astute character sketches and eyewitness accounts, Redcoats and Rebels presents a vivid and convincing picture of the "cruel, accursed" war that changed the world forever. 16 pages of illustrations. "Hibbert combines impeccable scholarship with a liveliness of style that lures the reader from page to page."—Sunday Telegraph Historian Hibbert corrects many fallacies that exist in the history of the American Revolution and portrays the realities of a war in which the British rarely lost a battle until the French helped the rebels defeat Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. Captures the flavor, energy, and language of the period with colorful anecdotes and quotations. 16 pages of illustrations and maps. |
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