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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) Hardcover – September 19, 2017
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The Revolutionary War as never told before.
This breathtaking installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation’s history: the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain’s King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe.
What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O’Reilly and Dugard recreate the war’s landmark battles, including Bunker Hill, Long Island, Saratoga, and Yorktown, revealing the savagery of hand-to-hand combat and the often brutal conditions under which these brave American soldiers lived and fought. Also here is the reckless treachery of Benedict Arnold and the daring guerrilla tactics of the “Swamp Fox” Frances Marion.
A must read, Killing England reminds one and all how the course of history can be changed through the courage and determination of those intent on doing the impossible.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHenry Holt and Co.
- Publication dateSeptember 19, 2017
- Dimensions6.5 x 1.22 x 9.49 inches
- ISBN-101627790640
- ISBN-13978-1627790642
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- Publisher : Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition (September 19, 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1627790640
- ISBN-13 : 978-1627790642
- Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.22 x 9.49 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #36,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #21 in England History
- #63 in U.S. Revolution & Founding History
- #229 in American Military History
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Bill O'Reilly is a trailblazing TV journalist who has experienced unprecedented success on cable news and in writing fifteen national number-one bestselling nonfiction books. There are currently more than 17 million books in the Killing series in print. He currently hosts the ‘No Spin News’ on BillOReilly.com. He lives on Long Island.
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Instead, this is a popular history, a history that hits the high points. It gives us a feeling for how dire the conditions were for the farm boys who fought and died in the war and how near and unlikely the eventual American victory was.
I learned a fair bit, as I always do. I especially enjoyed the parts telling about the Europeans who came across the sea to help us out.
I strongly recommend this popular, fast read of a history. These books are fun and informative.
And for the more snooty reviewers---don't confuse a popular history with a text book.
Take-aways that fascinated me:
* The Signing of the Declaration of Independence was signing a death warrant. Men of conviction. Jefferson, an introvert, had the gift to write with total clarify and purpose
* Patriots, while less skilled fighters, were defending their home. Fearsome fighters. Risk-takers. More clever when they had to be.
* Patriots might have been outnumbered by Loyalists. But Patriots were more passionate about the clause. Support waned with defeats
* Human losses due to malnourishment, frigid cold, poor hygiene, and captivity as prisoners of war were greater than battlefield losses
* Luck and happenstance played a big part: Washington’s surprise attack crossing the Delaware and used foul weather to advantage despite bitter cold, and capture of Benefit Arnold’s courier with treasonous documents by alert troops
* War crimes were committed by both sides but especially by the Red Coats. Namely rape and mass execution of surrendered prisoners
* Important role the French played later in the war. The French decided the enemy of my enemy is my friend. They suffered large loss of soldiers and the French Navy played a key role blocking Cornwallis’ escape from Yorktown VA
* General George Washington never lost faith. Inspiration to his troops by leading from the front. Authorized the swift and necessary executions of many traitors. He was decisive in command.
* At the end of the war, colonial Loyalists paid a heavy price, and most had to leave
* Finally, our forefathers all loved women and not always their wives.
One detail I thought missing from the storytelling, and never explained: How did the Patriots pay for the war, raise cash to pay soldiers, and buy weapons of war? How were monies raised and where did monies come from?
In the Patton and Reagan books, O'Reiily advanced interesting and quite defensible historical conjectures, causing concern as he had much data to support them, but not fully conclusive data in my mind, Here, he does none of this, and this is good, as the story is do important it is inappropriate for such distractions.
The book is not big enough to cover everything. For example, Arnold's raid up the Androscoggin to attack Montreal is just a few sentences. More weirdly, perhaps to establish the shear range of patriots and the visciusness of the Brits in the war, Frances Marion's efforts in South Carolina merit a good solid enjoyable chapter, while Nathaneal Greene's extremely significant running battles with Cornwallis's main hoard all over the Carolinas gets a mere reference in a sentence.
The prose is of very good quality, very simple but pleasurable to read. Clearly this project was purposed to combat the shear historical ignorance we find in the US these days. However, the extremely well read will like this book as well, it is not long but is a great treatment of the important and compelling story of our heritage, Our freedoms that were earned by extreme hardship in blood are now frivoled away as curious anarchisms now, perhaps irretrievable.
Jim Mullaney
West Chester, Ohio