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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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With illuminating insights from both sides of the war, Rick Atkinson brings fresh perspectives to the first 21 months of the American Revolution.
Winner of the George Washington Prize
Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award
Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
The paperback edition of The New York Times bestseller that the Wall Street Journal said was “chock full of momentous events and larger-than-life characters.”
Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long be...
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