Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War
Ferling puts the colonial campaign inside the wider European war it became, weighing French, Spanish and British strategy as heavily as anything at Saratoga.
Ferling places the American Revolution inside the wider European war it became, giving French, Spanish and British strategic calculations equal weight with the colonial campaign. The effect is to make the outcome look less inevitable and more contingent on decisions taken in Paris and Madrid, and the account works from both the American and British perspectives.
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Tyler Cowen
A good and well-detailed book for putting the Revolutionary War and its battles into a broader perspective, explicable to both American and British perspectives.
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