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Title: Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes by Christopher Hibbert ISBN: 0-393-32293-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding!
Comment: Redcoats and Rebels by Christopher Hibbert is an outstanding book on the American Revolution. The book is written through the British point of view. One interesting thing about he the book is that Hibbert is not all that glowing in his description of the British generals. Although he is British, Hibbert often speaks of how the men wished they had a leader that would get things done as Washington did. He describes the battles in a clear and interesting way. One part I liked was when he relates the shock that the British had in April of 1775. He tells of how the men were met with fire from the Patriots for the first time."We were fired at from all sides, but mostly from the rear," states one officer. One thing that is often brought up is that all the Patriots were for the longest time was a mob of farmers, and peasants. In a since this is true, yet they were just as skilled in war fair as the British, if not more. The American Revolution has always had a great appeal to me. This book is great for any one who is interested in American history, or one who just enjoys a well written book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A true reversal of perspective
Comment: Christopher Hibbert's "Redcoats and Rebels" is a book that would probably not have been published a quarter-century ago: it takes the most sacred of all political events, the American Revolution, and shows it through the eyes of the losing side. By the time this wonderfully readable history is finished, you are not impressed by the British side: they made one dumb mistake after another. But at least now a reader can be aware of precisely why the Americans won, and why George Washington is still to be admired. He lost battle after battle after battle after battle: and yet he won the war. He kept the army together, against all odds, and with the invaluable aid of the French, put together a coup de grace that ended the British political dominion over the newly born United States. This is a book for all lovers of political and military history, and in that, a very old-fashioned book. But anybody wanting to understand the American Revolution, the single most important armed struggle in our history (and I include the Civil War), has to take into account Hibbert's book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A detailed, human depiction of the American Revolution
Comment: (By Edward Trimnell, author of "Why You Need a Foreign Language & How to Learn One," ISBN: 1591133343)
The British author of this book gives a needed portrayal of one of the most significant events in the history of Western civilization. Some of the unique perspectives included in "Redcoats and Rebels" are:
-The perceived ingratitude of the American colonists, who lived under the protection of British troops in a hostile land. Many of the taxes placed on the colonists (such as the Stamp Act) were arguably necessary in order to pay for the thousands of troops who were protecting the colonies from Native American and French incursions.
- Contrary to the popularized versions of the American Revolution, the movement was not necessarily a spontaneous, grass-roots uprising. A relatively small group of zealots succeeded in bringing the colonists and the British to armed conflict.
-There were bloody, fratricidal conflicts between the American colonists who supported the revolution, and those who supported the British. The atrocities detailed in this book rival those of the former Yugoslavia.
- The British soldiers were not necessarily the trigger-happy ruffians of popular legend. The book mentions numerous documented cases of British restraint in the face of extreme provocation.
- There are fascinating parallels between the British fatigue in the American war, and later American fatigue in Vietnam. In both cases, a superior army was defeated through a guerilla war of attrition. Moreover, the war in America quickly became unpopular in Britain, just as the war in Vietnam became unpopular among the general citizenry of the United States.
-The book also provides some fascinating insights into the personalities of Washington, North, Clinton, and others.
"Redcoats and Rebels" does not diminish the legitimate aims of the American Revolution, and it does not explore the wider philosophical transition which was gripping the Western world at that time. The democratic ideals of the Enlightenment, which inspired the revolutionaries, are given only a passing notice in this book. However, Hibbert probably determined that the more idealistic aspects of the American Revolution have already been given an adequate voice by other authors.
Hibbert's aim seems to have been to make us realize that there were two sides to this political conflict of more than two centuries ago. He has succeeded admirably in this regard.
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Title: Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution as Seen Through British Eyes by Michael Pearson ISBN: 0306809834 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 21 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived It (Da Capo Paperback) by George F. Scheer, Hugh F. Rankin ISBN: 0306803070 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Wolfe at Quebec by Christopher Hibbert ISBN: 0815410166 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Agincourt by Christopher Hibbert ISBN: 0815410530 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Battles of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1781 (Major Battles and Campaigns ; 3) by W. J. Wood, John S. D. Eisenhower ISBN: 0306806177 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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