George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolution

Leckie traces the course of events from the causes of the break between the American colonies and the British government to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to George Washington at Yorktown. His descriptions of the many battles—the slaughter and confusion at Concord and Lexington, the Redcoats charging the Continental lines at Bunker Hill, the painful American setbacks at Brandywine and Germantown, and hard—won victories at Saratoga by John Paul Jones over HMS Serapis at se—are vivid and ex...