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100 1 $aWeintraub, Stanley,$d1929-2019.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50022584
245 10 $aIron tears :$bAmerica's battle for freedom, Britain's quagmire, 1775-1783 /$cStanley Weintraub.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axviii, 375 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
505 00 $tPreface : the abandoned canvas -- $g1.$t"Cousin America" : 1775 -- $g2.$tThe secretary for America : 1775-1776 -- $g3.$t"A most unaccountable madness" : January 1776-June 1776 -- $g4.$tA most precarious independence : July 1776-December 1776 -- $g5.$tThe best laid schemes : January 1777-July 1777 -- $g6.$tSaratoga trumps Philadephia : July 1777-December 1777 -- $g7.$tExcept in parliament : January 1778-June 1778 -- $g8.$tThe French connection : June 1778-December 1778 -- $g9.$tThe war on trial : January 1779-June 1779 -- $g10.$tModerately feeding the war : June 1779-December 1779 -- $g11.$tThe time of the tumults : January 1780-June 1780 -- $g12.$tA dearth of heroes : June 1780-December 1780 -- $g13.$tMarching about the country : January 1781-Julyl 1781 -- $g14.$t"The world turn'd upside down" : July 1781-December 1781 -- $g15.$tThe failure of fire and sword : January 1782-January 1784.
520 1 $a"For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance, exclusively from the perspective of the Continental army and the Founding Fathers. Now, in Iron Tears, master historian Stanley Weintraub offers the first account that examines the war from three divergent and distinct vantage points: the battlefields; the American leadership under George Washington; and - most originally - that of England, embroiled in controversy over the war. Colonial America was England's Vietnam." "Weintraub's multifaceted analysis will forever change and expand our view of the struggle. Although Washington's army, with France's help, won the war, it is equally significant - both then and now - that Britain lost it. The British found themselves overwhelmed by the geographic and time constraints that prevented their military from holding on to the eighteen-hundred-mile length of the thirteen colonies, from across three thousand miles of ocean during the cumbersome era of water travel. Many in London realized that American independence was only a matter of time. Yet the British were enveloped in a fantasy world of self-delusion as the war trudged along." "Iron Tears renders an unprecedented account of the fight for American independence through British eyes, while narrating the battles that were waged across the Atlantic from Lexington to Yorktown and beyond."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPublic opinion$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107298
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xForeign public opinion, British.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xBritish forces.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140145
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1760-1789.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056907
852 00 $bglx$hE249.3$i.W45 2005