This Destructive War

This Destructive War
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Publisher : Fire Ant Books
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015011327395
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Book Synopsis This Destructive War by : John S. Pancake

Download or read book This Destructive War written by John S. Pancake and published by Fire Ant Books. This book was released on 1985-02-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and accurate portrayal of the military action in the southern colonies that led to a new American nation. Following up the success of his 1777: The Year of the Hangman about the northern theaters of the American Revolutionary War, historian John Pancake now cover the war in the South, from General Clinton's attack on Charleston in the spring of 1780 to Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown in October 1781. Pancake expertly takes the reader back and forth between British and American headquarters to provide a brisk and sharp view from both sides of the conflict. His artful analysis also adds insights to the familiar narrative of the British losing because of their mistakes, American victory thanks to tenacity (particularly in the person of southern Continental forces commander Nathanael Greene), and British failure to overcome logistical problems of geography. Readers enjoy Pancake's wide-ranging knowledge of military history as applied to the Revolution as where, for example, he cites that tests conducted by the US Navy in World War II demonstrated that gun crews that were 100 percent efficient in training lost 35 percent of their efficiency in their first performance in combat. Pancake has a writer's eye for telling details, and he creates characters sketches of the main players in the conflict that readers will always remember. This Destructive War includes a number of figures as well as detailed maps of the region where battle took place. General readers as well as scholars and students of the American Revolution will welcome anew this classic, definitive study of the campaign in the Carolinas.


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