History -- Revolutionary War from I Cannot Live Without Books

Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World by George C. Daughan THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. George C. Daughan's magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much on economic corns as political ones. When Massachusetts… Read more about this item

Valley Forge by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. December 1777. It is 18 months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and some 12,000 members of America's beleaguered Continental Army stagger into a small Pennsylvania encampment 23 miles northwest of British-occupied Philadelphia. The starving and half-naked force is reeling from… Read more about this item

Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778 - 1781 by John Ferling It was 1778, and the recent American victory at Saratoga had netted the United States a powerful ally in France. Many, including General George Washington, presumed France's entrance into the war meant independence was just around the corner. Meanwhile, having lost an entire army at Saratoga, Great… Read more about this item

The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution by Thomas Fleming Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost the war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. Following the victory in 1775 at Bunker Hill, patriot leaders were convinced that the key to victory was the home-grown militia -- local men defending their… Read more about this item

The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution by Kevin J. Weddle In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion in the colonies the following year… Read more about this item

Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence by Jack Kelly THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. The fighting men who turned the ideas of the Founders into reality were a diverse and surprising group of American. In this concise, riveting narrative of the Revolutionary War, Jack Kelly paints a moving portrait of its principal… Read more about this item

1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War by Robert L. Tonsetic The Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War, but it was the pivotal campaigns and battles of 1781 that decided the final outcome. 1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of the nation hung by a thread, and only… Read more about this item

The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution by Robert G. Parkinson When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkins argues… Read more about this item

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775 - 1777 by Rick Atkinson In June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire since ancient Rome. Less than two years later, Britain's bright future turned dark: after a series of provocations, the king's soldiers took up arms against his… Read more about this item