There is a newness, eloquence, and immediacy in Atkinsons telling that surpasses any previous Revolutionary War narrative it conveys to the reader a sense of discovering the American Revolution for the very first time, in all. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama. The British Are Coming is an exquisite masterpiece of history by one of the nations foremost writers and historians. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling.įull 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.

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. 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.įrom 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. 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. Rick Atkinson, The British are Coming: The War for America, 1775-1777 (London: Williams Collins, 2019). The paperback edition of the New York Times bestseller that the Wall Street Journal said was “chock full of momentous events and larger-than-life characters.” Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award Winner of the Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize for the year’s best work in American history or biography Winner of the George Washington Prize, awarded by Mount Vernon and its partners for the year’s best work on our founding era The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

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