![]() “The British Are Coming” is the first volume in a planned trilogy on the American Revolution that will match his Liberation Trilogy on World War II. Undaunted, Atkinson makes his debut as a historian, determined to paint his own pictures with words. ![]() Visually, all we have are those paintings by John Trumbull, Charles Willson Peale and Gilbert Stuart, all of which are designed to memorialize iconic figures in patriotic scenes, where even dying men seem to be posing for posterity. Now Atkinson has decided to move back in time past the Morgan Line, into that distant world where there are no witnesses to interview, no films of battles or photographs of the dead and dying. ![]() To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing. According to Morgan’s Law, Rick Atkinson has been doing first-rate journalism, enjoying critical and commercial success for three masterly books on World War II, all thoroughly researched and splendidly written. My old mentor, Edmund Morgan, used to say that everything after 1800 is current events. ![]() THE BRITISH ARE COMING The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 By Rick Atkinson ![]()
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