9780743226875
Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1776-1783
Stanley Weintraub
ISBN 13: 9780743226875
Publisher: Free Pr
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
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A dual-sided history of the Revolutionary War examines the conflict from both the colonial and British sides, documenting the nearly violent political disagreements in Parliament, as well as the American-sympathetic pacifist media criticism of King George III that may have played a major role in the war's outcome.
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"[A] colorful and entertaining account by the American historian Stanley Weintraub of Britain's eight-year-long struggle to put down the rebellion of its North American colonists.....Weintraub's book is not a conventional military history of the war....Instead of a military narrative, he gives us an explicitly chronological account...filled with interesting vignettes and anecdotes and with the contemporaries' lively and often comic impressions of the war, drawn, especially on the British side, from a multitude of sources, including newspapers, diaries, and letters, some of them little known."
Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books, 04/28/2005
Review:"To see this story through British eyes...is to see an all-too-familiar tale reinvigorated....By giving the war a genuinely international flavor, it points the way to a new understanding of American history."
Barry Gewen, New York Times Book Review, 06/05/2005
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