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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
George Washington's humanity and super-humanity is all here in the first year of the Revolution. It renewed my obsession with His Excellency.
7/10
This is a well-written historical account of part of the Revolutionary War, and I learned a bunch. It's inspiring to see what a poorly-trained army was able to accomplish when there were so many things stacked against them.
That said, the book felt like it was lacking something, due at least in part to the fact that it only deals with a year of the ~7 year war. I debated whether the scope of the book should affect my rating of it, but I ultimately decided that I would allow it to since it influenced how much I enjoyed it.
This is a well-written historical account of part of the Revolutionary War, and I learned a bunch. It's inspiring to see what a poorly-trained army was able to accomplish when there were so many things stacked against them.
That said, the book felt like it was lacking something, due at least in part to the fact that it only deals with a year of the ~7 year war. I debated whether the scope of the book should affect my rating of it, but I ultimately decided that I would allow it to since it influenced how much I enjoyed it.
challenging
informative
tense
slow-paced
inspiring
medium-paced
informative
slow-paced
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
I got off to a slow start, but really learned a lot.
The first few chapters bounce around somewhat wildly, but the rest is incredibly detailed and captivating. David humanized the people and events of 1776 beautifully and made it feel as if I were reading about everyday people (which, of course, they were before being shrouded in lore).
Did a nice job of fleshing out events and people that were covered only at surface level in school, and particularly the military campaign side of things, which was always ignored in favor of the politics and philosophy. It did a nice job with showing the month-by-month march of events, the logistical factors, the indecision, and the effort and buildup that went into initiatives that ultimately went nowhere, which are a crucial part of how actual events unfold, but often get glossed over in presenting a tidy narrative in history. The writing is a bit dry, and I did struggle to keep some of the secondary figures straight, but still enjoyable and informative.
adventurous
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
