Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought

"Well-documented, entertaining. . . . This excellent popular history should attract a wide audience with its fresh perspective." —Publishers Weekly

Drawing on hundreds of specialist sources, contemporary and archival, Patriot Battles is the comprehensive one-volume study of the military aspects of the War of Independence. The first part of the book offers a richly detailed examination of the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat: For example, who fought and what motivated them, wheth...