An indispensable resource for investigating America's War for Independence, this book provides a comprehensive yet concise narrative that combines the author's original perspectives with the latest scholarship on the subject.
• Offers readers an incisive view of the ferocity of the war and the human cost of independence
• Documents how and why the Continental Army became a racially integrated army, something America would not see again until the Korean War
• Explains how a colonial rebellion in America became part of a world war
