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âExciting accounts of the major campaigns [of the American Revolution] . . . a reminder of what history can be when written by a master.â âPublishers Weekly âBeginning with a recapitulation of the French and Indian Warâwhich, though ending in British victory, represented the beginning of the end of the British empire in Americaâ[Robert] Leckie briskly recounts the well-known events leading to Americaâs break with Britain and the military development of the war. In anecdotal biographical sketches, he draws vivid portraits of the warâs principals: George III, George Washington, Thomas Gage, Lord Cornwallis, and Benedict Arnold, among others. Leckie summarizes the principal battles of the warâLexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Washingtonâs disastrous Long Island and Manhattan campaigns, his victories at Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga, and Yorktownâin lucid, workmanlike fashion. In superb depictions of the British leaders and of the British home front, he also adds details rarely found in popular American histories, and, unlike some historians, he doesnât neglect the southern warâthe battles of Camden, Cowpens, and Kingâs Mountain are covered as thoroughly as any.â âKirkus Reviews âEntertaining and enlightening.â âBooklist |
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