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Title: Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Lewis Roberts ISBN: 0-385-04377-5 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: June, 1947 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a well done historical novel
Comment: I enjoyed every page of this great book at age 14 when I discovered it at the public library in my hometown. It truly made history come to life. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the northern campaigns of the War for Independence. There are some historical errors as well as a hero worship of Benedict Arnold. However no one can deny that Arnold was the driving force in the success of the northern army at the Battle of Valcour Island and the next year at both battles at Freeman's Farm.
The historical characters jump off the page like Arnold, Daniel Morgan, Horatio Gates, Philip Schuyler, John Sullivan, and James Wilkinson. We get some insight into their character and thinking through Roberts' accessible writings style. Roberts builds on his previous novel of Arundel by utilizing many of the characters such as Cap Huff and Steven Nason of that fine book. His narrator is a Maine sea captain Peter Merrill who enlists in Nason's company in early 1776 and follows his travails including a long captvity with western Indians after Valcour Island. We meet up again with Marie de Sabrevois who works her nefarious schemes on the gullible brother of Merrill. How that all turns out is the underbook of the whole novel.
But the real story is the that of the Northern Army who after 2 years of disease, retreat, incompetent leadership, limited food and clothing supplies and military disaster showed amazing resilience in 1777 and defeated the British at the critical phase of the war. Do yourself a favor and read this great book. You'll enjoy every page.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully written epic tale of the Revolutionary War
Comment: It is not just the incredible story--the struggles of a few brave men at the birth of a nation--it's HOW it is about these men that makes this book a masterpiece. You will want to read this as part of the series which began with "Arundel" and continues with "The Lively Lady."
Roberts brings the tale to life, and shows far more insight into the actions of the Northern Army at the beginning of the Revolutionary War than you ever learned in public school. Men like Benedict Arnold who have become cardboard cutouts in glossy history books leap out at you, grab you by the shirt and drag you delightedly through the travails and untimate success of the Continental Army. Read the whole series!
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful!
Comment: Rabble in Arms is wonderful, and Kenneth Roberts, in only his second novel, demonstrates an amazing command of the medium. The author's keen appreciation of the historical context is critical to the novel's content, but it is his skill at developing characters, fictional and historical, that gives the book its great vitality.
Comparing Rabble in Arms to Arundel misses the point. They are, for all their shared themes and characters, different books. Simply put, Peter Merrill's voice and perspective in this novel differ in many respects from those of Steven Nason in Arundel. Cap Huff, who returns as the errant knight, is integral: he is to Roberts as Falstaff is to Shakepeare. I do recommend reading Arundel first, since you will derive extra benefit from the character development that has already taken place in the first installment of this series.
Rabble in Arms is another great work by a very talented and prolific author. Perhaps Roberts' sympathetic treatment of Benedict Arnold and his ambivalence concerning patriotism and loyalty have kept his work out of the classroom. Whatever the reasons, it is tragic that Roberts and his novels are not better known. They deserve to be widely read.
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Title: Arundel by Kenneth Roberts, N. C. Wyeth ISBN: 0892723645 Publisher: Down East Books Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts ISBN: 0892725427 Publisher: Down East Books Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Lewis Roberts ISBN: 0892724684 Publisher: Down East Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Lively Lady by Kenneth Lewis Roberts ISBN: 0892724250 Publisher: Down East Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Captain Caution by Kenneth Lewis Roberts ISBN: 0892724676 Publisher: Down East Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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