The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne and Horatio Gate

This lively and colorful work offers a fresh account of the Saratoga campaign of 1777 through the lives of its opposing generals—John Burgoyne, the British commander, and Horatio Gates, the American (but British-born) commander. The book vividly portrays the two men and the events that developed around them. It is the fullest discussion ever written about both the American and British dimensions of this campaign, the only engagement in the Revolutionary War in which an all-American army cap...