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George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolution
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An exciting trip back in time to the American Revolution, "a reminder of what history can be when written by a master."--Publishers Weekly
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This isn't as good as Bobrick's Angel in the Whirlwind, but nothing else I've read is either. The strong point of Leckie's book is the excellent mini-bigraphies that round out each section.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Despite the length of time it took me to read, I thoroughly enjoyed this history of the American Revolution. I'm not sure how it would stand up for someone with a strong background in American history, but for me, the blend of a fresh look at things I already knew and a lot of things I didn't know at all was the Baby Bear's porridge of history books.Interestingly, one thing that irritated me so much about my last long read worked very well in a nonfiction setting: every major character that's introduced gets his life story told. The narrative is interrupted for a brief but fairly thorough biography, then resumes. If it were fiction, or if I'd been reading for the story, it would have driven me up a wall. But when it comes to understanding history, and why things happened the way they did, it helped immensely to have a portrait of the major actors.Where the book really shines, I think (again, coming from a terribly limited background in history), is in showing the motivations and backgrounds for both sides. For example, in high school American History, I'd learned that the Americans won because the British were too short-sighted (stupid was implied, but not said) to learn to fight guerilla-style. In a nutshell, this isn't idealized as my education had been. (Unsurprisingly--my American history teacher was really the high school football coach, who was the history teacher because in my small school, coaches all had to be teachers as well. Guess which was his priority?)Even to my untutored eye, some of the book, particularly toward the end, gets a bit opinionated, but I'm cynical anyway, so I read it as fact colored by opinion, which is more interesting than dry facts, anyway.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vivid descrptions of the main military officers on both sides, coupled with battle narratives arranged in campaigns, make this an good introduction to the war and a very readable history. It contains little interpretaton, and a (very) few inaccracies, so it get's panned by professional historians, but it could be they are jealous.Leckie began writing boooks about battles after coming home from the Pacific in WWII. His first books were expansions from his own experience (Guadalcanal, etc.). Over the years he expabded his scope through other American wars. He is writing a history, but never forgets that he is also telling a story. The result is a good readable story that is also pretty fair to the history of the war.This book got me reading history again for the first time since school. I hope you also find it interesting.