This work offers a full-length, popular history of the American War of Independence - the "cruel accursed war" that changed the world forever. The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side, and heroic American patriots in homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. Here, the author portrays the realities of a war condemned by thousands of Americans, in which George Washington came perilously close to defeat. Both before and after General Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, the British rarely lost a battle until the French helped the rebels defeat Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781.
- ISBN10 039302895X
- ISBN13 9780393028959
- Publish Date 1 August 1990 (first published 12 July 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 375
- Language English