1776
David McCullough · 2005
A vivid narrative that follows Washington's army and the British forces through the year of the Declaration, showing the war as ordinary soldiers and civilians lived it on both sides.
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Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Woody Holton · 2021
Holton foregrounds the experiences of common soldiers, loyalists, enslaved people, and civilians, offering a broad and readable account of the Revolution from the bottom up.
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson · 2019
Told with a novelist's pace, it moves between British commanders and their troops and the rebel side, giving you the British military perspective on the campaigns that began the loss.
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Joseph J. Ellis · 2015
Ellis specializes in the founders as brilliant but flawed men under pressure, and this narrative shows Washington, Hamilton, Madison and Jay improvising a new nation amid political chaos.
Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt
Esther Forbes · 1943
The classic coming of age novel of the Revolution, following a young Boston silversmith's apprentice through the rising tensions and battles, and the most approachable entry point into the war years as fiction.
The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
Bernard Cornwell · 2009
A vivid, readable novel of the disastrous 1779 Penobscot expedition, told from both Patriot and Loyalist perspectives, giving the war's chaos and divided loyalties a strong narrative pull.
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