the british are coming young readers edition rick atkinson

Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country's creation drama. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling.įull 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. 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. With its start-to-finish battle narratives, the book captures the experience of the war and the profound emotional depths on display from the beginning. 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 America's violent war for independence.įrom 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 world's most formidable fighting force. A riveting young readers edition of The British Are Coming, the New York Times-bestselling history of the American Revolution by Pulitzer Prizewinner Rick. 29, 19.99 ISBN 978-8-9) Young readers can discover new aspects of the American Revolution in Atkinson’s adapted book, a photo-illustrated account.

This surely was an emergency, and here was young Henry Knox to announce that. 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. The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 Rick Atkinson. From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

The british are coming young readers edition rick atkinson