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# The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, 1)

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Review: Wonderful! A book every American should read. - An extraordinary book, beautifully written, well researched, and fascinating from beginning to end. Richly detailed, this is history at it’s best - it reads like the best adventure story, but it lands a difficult truth: but for a few brave leaders, and an equally committed and courageous army, we wouldn’t have the United States as we know it. This book should be required reading for every American.
Review: Vivid, packed with scene-setting imagery - Rick Atkinson is able to distill massive amounts of research into a gripping narrative. He has learned so much about the physical details of dress, technology, and buildings that he conjures up the scenes as thoroughly as a conscientious moviemaker would with a staff of researchers and designers. The character portraiture is first rate, too. It opens with George III, telling most of us more than we ever knew in a few pages. Atkinson depicts Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill with an accumulation of vivid detail that makes these famous names stand for bloody, costly struggles. I'm a great admirer of Liberation Trilogy, which I look forward to reading again. I have been waiting for the new trilogy since I first heard about it a few years ago. More than that, I have been waiting my whole life for a coherent and penetrating history of the Revolutionary War, which this trilogy promises to be. Congratulations to Mr. Atkinson on volume 1! 2/8/20 I have now finished this and I admire it even more than I expected to. Rick Atkinson is a writer's writer. He engineers vast research into a brisk narrative such that every sentence sparkles with historical veracity. He loves words and the unusual words he uses and shares enliven the reading. Gundalow and insectile, for example. The content is unsurpassable. War history sometimes looks like one catastrophe after another. That is certainly the case with the Battles of Long Island and Fort Washington. But thank God for Trenton and Princeton! I look forward to volume two.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #4,948 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #6 in American Military History #6 in U.S. Revolution & Founding History #19 in U.S. State & Local History |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 5,292 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful! A book every American should read.
*by G***T on June 20, 2025*

An extraordinary book, beautifully written, well researched, and fascinating from beginning to end. Richly detailed, this is history at it’s best - it reads like the best adventure story, but it lands a difficult truth: but for a few brave leaders, and an equally committed and courageous army, we wouldn’t have the United States as we know it. This book should be required reading for every American.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Vivid, packed with scene-setting imagery
*by B***R on June 7, 2019*

Rick Atkinson is able to distill massive amounts of research into a gripping narrative. He has learned so much about the physical details of dress, technology, and buildings that he conjures up the scenes as thoroughly as a conscientious moviemaker would with a staff of researchers and designers. The character portraiture is first rate, too. It opens with George III, telling most of us more than we ever knew in a few pages. Atkinson depicts Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill with an accumulation of vivid detail that makes these famous names stand for bloody, costly struggles. I'm a great admirer of Liberation Trilogy, which I look forward to reading again. I have been waiting for the new trilogy since I first heard about it a few years ago. More than that, I have been waiting my whole life for a coherent and penetrating history of the Revolutionary War, which this trilogy promises to be. Congratulations to Mr. Atkinson on volume 1! 2/8/20 I have now finished this and I admire it even more than I expected to. Rick Atkinson is a writer's writer. He engineers vast research into a brisk narrative such that every sentence sparkles with historical veracity. He loves words and the unusual words he uses and shares enliven the reading. Gundalow and insectile, for example. The content is unsurpassable. War history sometimes looks like one catastrophe after another. That is certainly the case with the Battles of Long Island and Fort Washington. But thank God for Trenton and Princeton! I look forward to volume two.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Good history of the American Revolution’s First Couple Years
*by F***R on October 18, 2025*

This book started out by covering the political actions and circumstances that eventuality led to the start of hostilities. The book then covered the first 21 months of the Revolutionary War, from Concord Bridge (April 1775) to Washington’s crossing the Delaware (December 1776). A follow-on second book, titled “The Fate of the Day” (which I have not read) has now been published. And a future third book will then complete author Rick Atkinson’s planned trilogy of the Revolutionary War. I liked this book. It covered both the American and British perspectives, and pointed out the advantages and disadvantages each side faced. For example, to provision their troops, the British had to depend upon a 3000-mile supply line, usually against prevailing headwinds. And yet it was the Americans troops who were typically undersupplied with inferior musketry, no bayonets, gunpowder typically in short supply and even clothing and shoes in short supply. Civilians had their problems too. The American militia took from Loyalist homesteads. The British took from rebel homesteads. And the Hessians, being a mercenary force fighting in a foreign land, took from everyone. The British were experts at landing ship-borne troops on enemy shores (just as the US was in the Pacific during WW II). But conquering an island is quite different from conquering a continent. American militia could fade inland, and they were familiar with the land they were fighting on and traversing through. Another interesting aspect was how all 13 colonies eventually united together to fight the British, especially since the Southern colonies were so different from the New England colonies. It turns out the British tried to get blacks to join their cause by suggesting blacks should be free. That infuriated the Southern colonies, whose militias were, at the time, primarily a force to protect against the possibly of a slave uprising. (At that time, South Carolina’s population was half white and half enslaved black.) Bottom Line: Lots of information to give the reader a sense of life at that time. Several key battles are covered, but the book is about much more than just the fighting. A good read, though a bit slow at times.

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