George Washington's War

Author - Bruce Chadwick ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Sourcebooks, Inc. was reviewed on 3-Nov-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book George Washington's War by Sourcebooks, Inc.. One of the better histories of Washington´s role in the Revolutionary War. Convincingly argues that without Washington, we would very likely still be an English colony today. Absorbing read!¤

2) Hardcover Book George Washington's War by Sourcebooks, Inc.. The title is misleading, I assumed a book titled George Washington´s War, would be a book about the his military exploits,tactics, and descriptions of the battles fought.....right? Wrong.

I should have realized that this wasn´t a military/warfare book by the fact it didn´t have any battle maps, actually there are no maps at all. By the 4th chapter I realized what I bought. An extremely comprehensive and detailed account on the struggles of the incredibly hard task Washington faced with everything from logistics, inflation, small pox, half naked soldiers, famines, lack of ammunition, Loyalist, greedy merchants, etc, etc....

It does start off with promise. The detailed information was fascinating about life in the military camp and showcasing Washington´s incredible genius to be an administrator and his perserverance in dealing with extreme adversity. Then it falls flat.

At times I thought I was reading the same exact page word-for-word from a previous chapter. I expected him at some point to go back and describe in any detail at all, the battles of Lexington and Concord, Battle of Bunker´s Hill, his retreat throughout New York, Battle Of Brandywine creek, etc,etc. But instead it is the same scenario over and over on the difficulties the soldiers faced, logistic nightmares, his numerous problems with Congress, lack of money, etc., chapter after chapter.

The author is well informed and has a great depth of knowledge, but he loses the audience with the incredible amount of repetitive details and too many people who are irrelevant to the story. This book is not for those who want any type of military narrative or details on the battles that were actually fought. They are only talked about as a passing thought. There is no build up to anything, the detailed information becomes so repetitive it is hard to finish reading.
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3) Hardcover Book George Washington's War by Sourcebooks, Inc.. Every kid in high school should be REQUIRED to read this book, Our founding father went through pure hell to fight for our country, establish democracy, freedom, and break from the British tyrants. The soldiers went through starvation. Eating the bark off trees, eating their dogs-anything to stay alive. Many times the Continential Army were at the breaking point, but the steady determination of George Washington, Nathaniel Greene, and countless leaders were determine to have victory at any cost. I could not lay this book down. It is very well-written, and you feel drawn into the book as if you were a part of the action. The winter´s at Valley Forge & Morristown were harsh, and the epidemic of small pox would have destroyed the army if not for General Washington´s orders of quarantine.
War is Hell, but the price of freedom is not cheap!
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4) Hardcover Book George Washington's War by Sourcebooks, Inc.. There are great overviews of the American Revolution: Angel in the Whirlwind, there are great analyses of critical moments: Washington´s Crossing and there are many great biographies: John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, The First American. This tries to be all three fails miserably across the board. No insights, no new news and poor editing make this a real slog.¤

5) Hardcover Book George Washington's War by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was excellent, if for no other reason, because it showed the true bravery and heroism of not only General George Washington, but those who followed him faithfully into the very jaws of oblivion! Such men as Knox (Washington´s artillery commander -- whom the famous fort is named after) and Greene followed Washington through the war and faced a terrible and bloody end if they were captured by the British. What drove these men to follow one man on a quest for such an unheard-of dream?

"George Washington´s War" chronicles the reasons why George Washington was so victorious not only in winning the American Revolution, but also in getting the men around him and those in the Continental Congress to put enough faith in him and grant him enough power to get the job done! As well, it shows how these very achievements were brought, by the glorified commander-in-chief, to the position of President of the United states several years later.

If you are a fan of the Revolution, you will find this book entertaining. However, if you are interested in how our nation´s most celebrated office formed, and what that office trully stands for and is intended for, this book will be both entertaining and enlightening. Indeed, it made me yearn for politicians who thought the way this brilliant man did!¤

6) Hardcover Book George Washington's War by Sourcebooks, Inc.. The American Revolution was won not on the battlefields, but in the mind of George Washington. A compulsively readable narrative and extensive new history, George Washington’s War illuminates how during the war’s winter months the young general created a new model of leadership that would become the foundation of the new nation and the model for the American presidency.

Based on more than 1,500 original sources and written in the tradition of David McCullough’s John Adams, historian Bruce Chadwick, Ph.D., dramatizes how the greatest threat to the American Revolution was not the British Army, but the infancy of the United States. During those terrible times, Washington had to create a military with soldiers who most often quit after a brief enlistment; deal with a backbiting and often uncaring Congress and the emerging states; overcome starvation, mutinies and a smallpox epidemic; and face winters so bitter that some of his men, without blankets or shoes, would freeze to death. By holding together an often despairing army and a disparate nation through creative, ingenious and often shocking methods, and by supporting democratic institutions to do so, Washington sired the republic that we know today.

Authoritative and dramatically rendered, George Washington’s War is a spellbinding account of the hardships and real-life events that forged a great leader and a nation.
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