Iron Tears America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1776-1783

"[A] colorful and entertaining account by the American historian Stanley Weintraub of Britain's eight-year-long struggle to put down the rebellion of its North American colonists.....Weintraub's book is not a conventional military history of the war....Instead of a military narrative, he gives us an explicitly chronological account...filled with interesting vignettes and anecdotes and with the contemporaries' lively and often comic impressions of the war, drawn, especially on the British side, from a multitude of sources, including newspapers, diaries, and letters, some of them little known."Weintraub, Stanley is the author of 'Iron Tears America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1776-1783', published 2005 under ISBN 9780743226875 and ISBN 0743226879.