#Histodons! Any reading recommendations for the American War of Independence? Since beach season doesn't seem to be coming, my current holiday plan is to just jump into a sea of books instead.
McGuires books on the Philadelphia Campaign are excellent. If you want detailed accounts of actions in the South then Babit's book on Cowpens is excellent (a Devil of a Whipping) and his Long Bloody and Obstinate as well. A good overview from a British viewpoint have a looks at Fusiliers by Mark Urban.
And I've a soft spot for Roger Lamb's journal and the Robert Graves novels based on it.
@LHaasis@histodons@historikerinnen@earlymodernmaritimestudies The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America’s War of Liberation of Canada by Mark R. Anderson is well worth reading. The fact that American colonists invaded Canada (Province of Quebec) before they declared independence is an interesting twist that doesn’t get a lot of play.
@LHaasis@histodons@historikerinnen@earlymodernmaritimestudies I had a lot of fun with the recent irreverent episodes on the decidedly non-academic The Rest is History podcast, if only because they burst the self-important bubble a but. I seem to remember that they had book recommendations, too.
Bloody Mohawk by Richard Berleth (Black Dome Press, 2009) includes the war in New York State, but foregrounds it in early settlement (including Palatine Germans), the French and Indian War, and then the Revolution. Major focus on the tribes of the Iroquois nations and their relationship with Indian agents, settlers, Loyalists, and Patriots. Shows how earlier issues affected the Revolution.
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