It became a best seller when it was released last spring - for good reason: Atkinson brings to life the first 21 months of the epic conflict with vivid details and personal stories about both legendary figures such as George Washington and Samuel Adams (the founding father “often stood on his toes when excited,” the author writes), and ordinary people in an almost cinematic way.Īs a New York Times reviewer put it, “To say that Atkinson can tell a story is like saying Sinatra can sing.” His latest book, The British Are Coming, is the first volume in a planned trilogy on the American Revolution. History buffs have a treat in The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson, the author of, among others, the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn (2002), that kicked off a trilogy about World War II.
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