The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson

Step in out of the salty air and pull up a chair. We’ve got a story for you—and it’s one of the most thrilling chapters in our nation’s history.

Winner of the George Washington Prize, the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, the Excellence in American History Book Award, and the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, this is the opening volume of Rick Atkinson’s sweeping Revolution Trilogy. The New York Times bestseller that the Wall Street Journal called “chock full of momentous events and larger-than-life characters.”

Atkinson—already a Pulitzer Prize winner for his masterful World War II histories—turns his eye to the first twenty-one months of America’s fight for independence. From Lexington and Concord in the spring of 1775 to Trenton and Princeton in the winter of 1777, you’ll follow ragtag militiamen and the scrappy Continental Army as they square off against the most powerful military on earth.

And what characters you’ll meet. Henry Knox, the former bookseller with a genius for artillery (a man after our own hearts). Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin turned brilliant commander. Benjamin Franklin, the wiliest diplomat in the room. And a young George Washington, learning the hard art of leadership when all seems lost.

Told from both sides of the conflict, it’s a tale of heroes and knaves, of blunder and redemption, brought vividly to life on every page.

This is the kind of book you’ll want to linger over on a rainy afternoon, the ocean murmuring just outside. Curl up. Settle in. The story’s about to begin.

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