New York was set in an archipelago with almost eight hundred miles of waterfront, and the British commanded the sea. The American Revolution nearly came to a bad end barely a year after it began. He despised disorder and loathed disobedience.īritain, the greatest empire the world had seen since ancient Rome, found itself bottled up in the small provincial town of Boston, and then, after months of misery, was forcibly evicted from that place by a ragged mob of rebels. He was frugal in an age of excess, pious at a time of impiety. He was king for sixty years, from 1760 to 1820. King George III was shrewder, more complex, and more intriguing than we often acknowledge. King George III and the American Revolution
Rick Atkinson’s new trilogy shows the war as soldiers and militiamen saw it-terrifying, bestial, and occasionally grand-and as generals fought it, sometimes well, often badly. The American Revolution is a creation story that accounts for who we are, where we came from, what we believe, and what our forebears were willing to die for. Rick Atkinson on Writing the American Revolution But it quickly became clear, Washington was instinctively, brilliantly, a political general. Video George Washington, A Novice GeneralĪt the start of the Revolutionary War, it had been seventeen years since General George Washington last wore a military uniform and he was only a provincial officer with limited experience in frontier combat. The more that Americans are reminded by Atkinson and other supreme practitioners of the historians’ craft that their nation was not made by flimsy people, the less likely it is to be flimsy.” -George F. One lesson of The British Are Coming is the history-shaping power of individuals exercising their agency together: the volition of those who shouldered muskets in opposition to an empire…. “ felicity for turning history into literature…. Atkinson weaves it all together seamlessly, bringing us with him.” -Mark Spencer, The Wall Street Journal
Atkinson’s facts are drawn from a wealth of manuscript and printed sources.… Mr. The narrative is the stuff of novels, Mr. Perfect material for a storyteller as masterly as Mr. Atkinson’s book…is chock full of momentous events and larger-than-life characters. It is difficult to imagine any reader putting this beguiling book down without a smile and a tear.” -Joseph J. It is as if Ken Burns somehow gained access to a time machine, traveled back to the Revolutionary era, then captured historical scenes on film as they were happening…. “To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing…. The British Are Coming Volume One of the Revolution Trilogyįrom the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution
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