Rick Atkinson

The British Are Coming (eBook, ePUB)

The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the George Washington Prize
Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award
Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution

Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America's violent war for independence.

From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world's most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling.

Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country's creation drama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781627790444
• Artikelnr.: 56706600

Autorenporträt

Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy-An Army at Dawn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History), The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light-as well as The Long Gray Line and other books. His many additional awards include a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, a George Polk Award, and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award. A former staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF MAPS
MAP LEGEND
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PROLOGUE, England, June 1773-March 1775
1. Inspecting the Fleet
2. Avenging the Tea
3. Preparing for War
PART ONE
1. GOD HIMSELF OUR CAPTAIN
Boston, March 6-April 17, 1775
2. MEN CAME DOWN FROM THE CLOUDS
Lexington and Concord, April 18-19, 1775
3. I WISH THIS CURSED PLACE WAS BURNED
Boston and Charlestown, May-June 1775
4. WHAT SHALL WE SAY OF HUMAN NATURE?
Cambridge Camp, July-October 1775
5. I SHALL TRY TO RETARD THE EVIL HOUR
Into Canada, October-November 1775
6. AMERICA IS AN UGLY JOB
London, October-November 1775
7. THEY FOUGHT, BLED, AND DIED LIKE ENGLISHMEN
Norfolk, Virginia, December 1775
8. THE PATHS OF GLORY
Quebec, December 3, 1775-January 1, 1776
PART TWO
9. THE WAYS OF HEAVEN ARE DARK AND INTRICATE
Boston, January-February 1776
10. THE WHIPPING SNAKE
Cork, Ireland, and Moore's Creek, North Carolina, January-March 1776
11. CITY OF OUR SOLEMNITIES
Boston, March 1776
12. A STRANGE REVERSE OF FORTUNE
Quebec, April-June 1776
13. SURROUNDED BY ENEMIES, OPEN AND CONCEALED
New York, June 1776
14. A DOG IN A DANCING SCHOOL
Charleston, South Carolina, June 1776
15. A FIGHT AMONG WOLVES
New York, July-August 1776
16. A SENTIMENTAL MANNER OF MAKING WAR
New York, September 1776
PART THREE
17. MASTER OF THE LAKES
Lake Champlain, October 1776
18. THE RETROGRADE MOTION OF THINGS
New York, October-November 1776
19. A QUAKER IN PARIS
France, November-December 1776
20. FIRE-AND-SWORD MEN
New Jersey, December 1776
21. THE SMILES OF PROVIDENCE
Trenton, December 24-26, 1776
22. THE DAY IS OUR OWN
Trenton and Princeton, January 1777
EPILOGUE, England and America, 1777
AUTHOR'S NOTE
NOTES
SOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX