Buchumschlag
Iron tears: America's battle for freedom, Britain's quagmire, 1775 - 1783
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Beteilige Person: Weintraub, Stanley 1929-2019 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Free Press 2005
Schlagwörter:
aPublic opinion > zGreat Britain > xHistory > y18th century
Armee
Öffentliche Meinung
Amerikanische Revolution
aUnited States > xHistory > yRevolution, 1775-1783 > xForeign public opinion, British
aUnited States > xHistory > yRevolution, 1775-1783 > xBritish forces
aGreat Britain > xPolitics and government > y1760-1789
Großbritannien
Abstract:A dual-sided history of the Revolutionary War examines the conflict from both the colonial and British sides, documenting the nearly violent political disagreements in Parliament, as well as the American-sympathetic pacifist media criticism of King George III that may have played a major role in the war's outcome. For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance, exclusively from the perspective of the Continental army and the Founding Fathers. Now, in Iron Tears, master historian Stanley Weintraub offers the first account that examines the war from three divergent and distinct vantage points: the battlefields; the American leadership under George Washington; and -- most originally -
that of England, embroiled in controversy over the war. Colonial America was England's Vietnam. Weintraub's multifaceted analysis will forever change and expand our view of the struggle. Although Washington's army, with France's help, won the war, it is equally significant -- both then and now -
that Britain lost it. The British found themselves overwhelmed by the geographic and time constraints that prevented their military from holding on to the eighteen-hundred-mile length of the thirteen colonies, from across three thousand miles of ocean during the cumbersome era of water travel. Many in London realized that American independence was only a matter of time. Yet the British were enveloped in a fantasy world of self-delusion as the war trudged along. The unyielding George III, who ultimately threatened abdication; his lethargic prime minister, Lord North; the First Lord of the Admiralty, the corrupt Earl of Sandwich, better remembered for his paired slices of bread; and the Secretary for America, Lord George Germain, an arrogant ex-general court-martialed for cowardice in an earlier war, formed a quartet that played out of tune
Beschreibung:Includes index.
Umfang:XVIII, 375 S., [8] Bl. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0743226879

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