Angel in the Whirlwind

A powerful book chronicling the American Revolutionary War, from its colonial roots to the final victory of the patriots over the British forces. This epic tale is recounted by Benson Bobrick, acclaimed by The New York Times as “perhaps the most interesting historian writing in America today. ” Overwhelmed with debt following its victory in the French and Indian Wars, England began imposing harsh new tariffs and taxes on its colonists in the 1760s. Rebellion against these measures soon erupted into war. Bobrick thrillingly describes all major battles, from Lexington to Concord’s dramatic standoff with British regulars at Lexington Green to Yorktown’s siege, when red-coated troops were finally pushed back before patriot guns.