A Short History of the American Revolution

by James L Stokesbury

Overview

The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the American colonies on the road to independence. Offering a spirited chronicle of the war itself — the campaigns and strategies, the leaders on both sides, the problems of fielding and sustaining an army, and of maintaining morale — Stokesbury also brings the reader to the Peace of Paris in 1783 and into the miltarily exhausted, financially ruined yet victorious United States as it emerged to create a workable national system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780688123048
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/27/1993
Series:	Short History
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	992,732
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

James L. Stokesbury is the author of A Short History of World War I, A Short History of World War II, A Short History of the Korean War, and A Short History of the American Revolution. Before his death in 1995 he was a professor of history at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.