On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews Pulitzer-prize winning author Rick Atkinson about his latest book, the best-selling The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777, the first volume of his trilogy on the War of Independence.
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Looking forward to listening to this, as I’m in the middle of his book now!
Just finished the read of his book. Very thorough detail discussion of the early part of the war. I am looking forward to his next two volumes!
Most of the Revolutionary texts I have read focused on a specific leader, Knox, Morgan, etc. or on one Battle rather than a timeline of the whole War, so prepare to find a comfortable chair—it is no short text, but it is a good read and gives the reader an appreciation of the times and the difficulties and how we almost lost the war and our freedoms