Partisans and Redcoats - by Walter B Edgar (Paperback)

About the Book

In this gripping, thoroughly researched volume of Southern conflict during the American Revolution, Walter Edgar brings to life the battles, the people, and the land that were a crucial front line in the struggle for independence. 8-page photo insert.

From the Back Cover

From one of the South′s foremost historians, this is the dramatic story of the conflict in South Carolina that was one of the most pivotal contributions to the American Revolution.

In 1779, Britain strategised a war to finally subdue the rebellious American colonies with a minimum of additional time, effort, and blood. Setting sail from New York harbour with 8,500 ground troops, a powerful British fleet swung south towards South Carolina. One year later, Charleston fell. And as King George′s forces pushed inland and upward, it appeared the six-year-old colonial rebellion was doomed to defeat. In a stunning work on forgotten history, acclaimed historian Walter Edgar takes the American Revolution far beyond Lexington and Concord to re-create the pivotal months in a nation′s savage struggle for freedom. It is a story of military brilliance and devastating human blunders - and the courage of an impossibly outnumbered force of demoralised patriots who suffered terribly at the hands of a merciless enemy, yet slowly gained confidence through a series of small triumphs that convinced them their war could be won. Alive with incident and colour.

Review Quotes

"Edgar's lucid, unflinching account shows the American Revolution in the south was truly the nation's first civil war." - Publishers Weekly