The British Are Coming (Softcover)
Winner of the 2020 George Washington Prize.Ā TheĀ George Washington PrizeĀ is one of the nationsā largest and most prestigious literary awards.
Rick Atkinson. The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777. ISBN: 978-1-250-23132-1. Softcover 800 pages. Copyright 2019.
From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.
Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winningĀ An Army at DawnĀ and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy, he recounts the first twenty-one months of Americaās violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the worldās most formidable fighting force.Ā
Full of riveting details and untold stories,Ā The British Are ComingĀ is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our countryās creation drama.