Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived It

Here is the American Revolution, the epic struggle that brought forth a new nation, told in a great measure by those who fought and lived it: major figures like Washington, Revere, Franklin…and many others heretofore unknown. This is a document of the first great war of principle as it felt and sounded to those who were there, making history."I know of no book where [the student] or general reader can attain…a more stimulating sense of what it truly was to have been there, of what it meant for humanity, patriot or redcoat, to have fought there, to have suffered there, to have settled the issues on the field." -- Perry Miller"…[C]ontinues to be one of the most interesting and lively volumes in the literature of the War of Independence." -- Don Higginbotham