Redcoats and rebels : the American Revolution through British eyes /
Hibbert, Christopher, -1924
Redcoats and rebels : the American Revolution through British eyes / Christopher Hibbert. - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c1990. - xx, 375 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps 24 cm.
Originally published in England in 1990 under the title: Redcoats and rebels : the war for America, 1770-1781.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-358) and index.
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 their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent-a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing. Based on a wide variety of sources and alive with astute character sketches and eyewitness accounts, Redcoats and Rebels presents a vivid and convincing picture of the "cruel, accursed" war that changed the world forever. 16 pages of illustrations. www.shelfari.com
039302895X
Redcoats and rebels : the American Revolution through British eyes / Christopher Hibbert. - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c1990. - xx, 375 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps 24 cm.
Originally published in England in 1990 under the title: Redcoats and rebels : the war for America, 1770-1781.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-358) and index.
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 their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent-a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing. Based on a wide variety of sources and alive with astute character sketches and eyewitness accounts, Redcoats and Rebels presents a vivid and convincing picture of the "cruel, accursed" war that changed the world forever. 16 pages of illustrations. www.shelfari.com
039302895X
