Mark Edward Lender, Professor James Kirby Martin

Gebundenes Buch

War Without Mercy

Liberty or Death in the American Revolution

Beschreibung

Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle.

Autor

Mark Edward Lender is Professor Emeritus of History at Kean University. He is author or co-author of more than a dozen books including, with James Kirby Martin, the acclaimed A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789 (Wiley, 2015) - which for several years was required reading at West Point - and, with Garry Wheeler Stone, the award-winning Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016). He served on the design team for the Army's special 250th Anniversary Exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Army. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781472872678
• ISBN-10: 1472872673
• Artikelnr.: 72664701

Rezensionen

War Without Mercy is a necessary corrective to the long-held belief that the American Revolution was more about high-minded ideals than brutal warfare. As Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin vividly demonstrate, Americans found themselves in a no-holds-barred conflict of terrifying violence from which the country has yet to recover. This is history at its insightful and mesmerizing best.