a short history of the american revolution
p the first one volume survey of the american revolution that is both objective and comprehensive this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the american colonies on the road to independence . offering a spirited chronicle of the war itself the campaigns and strategies the leaders on both sides the problems of fielding and sustaining an army and of maintaining morale stokesbury also brings the reader to the peace of paris in 1783 and into the miltarily exhausted financially ruined yet victorious united states as it emerged to create a workable national system .