IRON TEARS: Rebellion in America 1775-1783 :: 16th-18th Century :: Time Periods

Masterly account of the U.S. War of Indeperndence by a distinguished American historian that tells the story from a largely British perspective.

There has been a recent revival of interest in the American War of Independence, with historians re-interpreting the decade-long war as less of a heroic black-and-white struggle for liberty, and more of a complex conflict that was at once a Civil War and an international struggle as well as an internal rebellion. In this account, Prof. Stanley Weintraub, a distinguished American historian, looks at the war largely from a British perspective, focussing, as well as the central figure of George Washington, on the four Britons he holds most responsible for causing and continuing the conflict: stubborn King George III, bumbling Prime MInister Lord North; the corrupt gambler Lord Sandwich [inventor of the eponymous foodstuff]; and the woefully incompetent American Secretary Lord George Germain. A military, as well as a political history of the war, Weintraub skilfully tells a sad but noble story of a falling out of friends and family that led to a long-drawn out war and eventually the creation of the world’s No.1 superpower.

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Product Code:	10368
Author:	Stanley Weintraub
Format:	375pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £18.99
Shipping Time:	This item is usually dispatched Next Day
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