People's War: Original Voices of the American Revolution - Paperback

by Noel Rae (Author)

This is the story of one of history's great events, the American Revolutionary War, told almost entirely in the words of the soldiers and sailors who fought it and the civilians who endured it.

Front Jacket

The outcome was one of history's great, surprising events, David slaying Goliath. At the beginning of the war, which cast the world's most powerful nation against a shaky collection of its wildly independent colonies, no such outcome was conceivable. But as the upstarts slowly welded themselves into an effective force, step by step the Americans whipped the mighty British to found the world's most enduring democracy.See the war through the frank and vivid diaries and letters, reflective memoirs, lurid and sensational newspaper accounts, and sober official documents of the American Revolution. Hear the voices of the farmers and merchants, tradesmen and housewives, who joined with the generals and the country's new leaders to wage The People's War.

Author Biography

Noel Rae graduated with honors in history from Oxford University. He is the author of Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America 1600-1900, which was Number One on the Washington Post's political bestseller list. Since coming to the United States, he has worked as an editor, teacher, and translator. He lives in Cross River, New York.