TLDR: book is dank, easy to read and get hooked while being incredibly well researched and written. One of stated reasons for writing the books is that he believes by better understanding the founding of America it’ll provide better context and appreciation for current events, and from my read through it definitely does. He strikes an excellent balance between the overall strategic overview and the persons at that level and the individual common person involved in the conflict

His style of writing is instantly captivating and draws you into the scenarios he describes He has done an incredible job of finding and incorporating primary sources at every level Ellis’s review of Rick Atkinson’s The British Are Coming (May 26) is more than a wee bit patronizing: My old mentor, Edmund Morgan, used to say that. He wrote the award winning liberation trilogy about the American war effort in Europe during WWII. There is a newness, eloquence, and immediacy in Atkinsons telling that surpasses any previous Revolutionary War narrative it conveys to the reader a sense of discovering the American Revolution for the very first time, in all. Forcing a Passage of the Hudson River, 9 October 1776, oil. The British Are Coming is an exquisite masterpiece of history by one of the nations foremost writers and historians.

A former editor for the WaPo and a combat correspondent for the invasion of Iraq, he has real first hand experience of war and its impact on the individual. The British Are Coming is the first volume of a trilogy on the American Revolutionary War by popular historian Rick Atkinson. Skip ahead for why I believe anyone and everyone should read this book. Rick Atkinson’s newest book, “The British Are Coming,” is an incredible example of history done right. As award-winning author Rick Atkinson tells the story in The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, his cinematic first volume of three narrative. I will personally read every type of history book, but I realize that a frequent problem is incredibly dry and not engaging texts. Hey all! I’m a history major in his senior year and an avid history reader. Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply.

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