John Burgoyne
Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781 John Ferling Bloomsbury (May 2021) From April 1775 until October 1777, how and why Britain “could have and should have won the war” In his Preface, John Ferling explains that…
Read MoreThe British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy) Rick Atkinson Henry Holt & Company (May 2019) Another masterpiece to be savored and cherished I read and reviewed Rick Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy — An…
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Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence Jack Kelly Palgrave Macmillan (2014) A brilliant analysis of the “founding amateur warriors” who contributed so much to winning America’s independence Whenever appropriate, I read two or three books in…
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