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Title: Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763 by Stephen Brumwell ISBN: 0-521-80783-2 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Essentially a fluffed-up doctoral dissertation
Comment: Redcoats is a book for the historian or academician but not the general reader. Brumwell has one point to make, more or less, that the English soldier in North America adapted to the style of fighting needed during the French-Indian War and was effective. This does not require an entire book and does not make for an interesting one. Every page contains several footnotes which usually don't explain anything further and could better be placed at the end. I had to work to finish the book. But possibly I'm being unfair in that I was looking for a book to build on my understanding of the war and not such an esoteric treatment of one part of it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A good read.
Comment: I truly enjoyed this one. Definitely one of the top ten I read this year. The book was thorough, enticing and educational. I look forward to Brumwell's next book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Practical Look at the Soldiers of Britain in the F&I War
Comment: Having recently met Dr. Brumwell, a soft spoken gentleman. And having had the pleasure of discussing this book. He asked me a simple question, after he made sure I'd actually read the book, " Did you agree or disagree with the content?" I assured him that I totally agreed with him, as it was 'bang on' with the research I had completed. I have been trying for some years to explain that soldiers in the war did not venture about the wilds in their 'Sunday Best' and on the contrary were quite adapted for this forest warfare by 1758. This book when carefully read will give a true picture of the adaptation both common soldier and officer had made. As a reenactor of 'the Black Watch' in this time period, I need only to point to this book as a primary source for documentation for our strange uniforms and tactics. I highly recommend this book to the scholar and reenactor alike. It is very refreshing to see such a large amount of study going into something like this. And as I had told Stephen,"If it were in my power, I'd see to it you'd recieve a medal, for a job very well done." He, on the otherhand, said,"I could only wish."
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Title: Crucible of War : The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson ISBN: 0375706364 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Montcalm and Wolfe: The French and Indian War by Francis Parkman, C. Vann Woodward ISBN: 0306810778 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the "Massacre" by Ian Kenneth Steele ISBN: 0195084268 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The French and Indian War 1754-1763: The Imperial Struggle for North America by Seymour I. Schwartz ISBN: 0785811656 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The French-Indian War 1754-1760 by Daniel Marston ISBN: 1841764566 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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