Oliver Wiswell

When this book was first published in 1940, one critic claimed that "adjectives pale before the superb drive and force of Oliver Wiswell."

In the novel Kenneth Roberts portrays a very different side to the story of the American Revolution, that of the loyalists (colonists who supported the British monarchy). Spanning the years from 1775 to 1783, ''Oliver Wiswell'' traces the adventures of a Yale student who is deeply loyal to the established government of the colonies.

This wonderfully far-...