The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy)

Resumen del libro

From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution

Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of Americas violent war for independence.

From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the worlds most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling.

Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our countrys creation drama.

Biografía del autor

Rick Atkinson (1952) fue redactor y más tarde editor en The Washington Post durante más de veinte años, y sus trabajos han merecido cuatro premios Pulitzer por su labor histórica y periodística. Su reconocimiento internacional ha venido especialmente por los dos primeros volúmenes de la Trilogía de la Liberación, Un ejército al amanecer. La guerra en el Norte de Africa, 1942-1943 (Crítica, 2004) -ganador del premio Pulitzer y que fue calificado por The Wall Street Journal como "el mejor libro sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial desde los clásicos de Cornelius Ryan El día más largo y Un puente lejano" - y El día de la batalla. La Guerra en Sicilia y en Italia, 1943-44 (Crítica, 2008). En 2014 publica el tercer volumen de la trilogía: Los cañones del atardecer.