The story of The American War of Independence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_war_of_independence) 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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hibbert and http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/27/obituary-christopher-hibbert-historian) 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 (1990) presents a vivid and convincing picture of the ‘cruel, accursed’ war that changed the world forever. It includes 16 pages of illustrations. In this history you’ll find impeccable scholarship with a liveliness of style that will keep you turning the pages. Do enjoy it.
400 pages in Pen and Sword Military paperback edition
ISBN 978-1844156993
Christopher Hibbert