****One of *AudioFile Magazine'*s Best Audiobooks of 2019**
The winning combination of George Newbern's engaging narration and Rick
Atkinson's vivid new work of history--the first in a planned trilogy
about the American Revolution--brings to life what could have been a dry
account of Revolutionary battles. -- AudioFile Magazine**
This program includes a bonus introduction, read by the author, and
exclusive to the audiobook.
From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the
extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American
Revolution.
Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn
and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for
his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he
turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the
Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America's
violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord
in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777,
American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the
world's most formidable fighting force.
It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the
former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael
Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain;
Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of
diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the
difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story
is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict
between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling.
Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is
a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and
profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the
first act of our country's creation drama.
