Historian Rick Atkinson reads from "The British Are Coming"

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From the bestselling author of the “Liberation Trilogy” comes “The British Are Coming,” 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 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 21 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. 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. Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama.