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War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution

War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution

Lender, Mark Edward
Martin, James Kirby

Hardcover

Other WarsRegional: New EnglandRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 1472872673
ISBN13: 9781472872678
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Robust and focused - The Wall Street Journal
History at its insightful and mesmerizing best - Nathaniel Philbrick

Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle.

This engrossing history conclusively shows that those caught up in it believed they had nothing to lose by fighting without regard for the rules of so-called civilized warfare. The call to arms Liberty or Death was far more than just rhetoric. At its grimmest level, it was a conflict in which military restraint was more the exception than the rule, a struggle in which combatants believed their very existence was in question. This led to an acceptance of violence against persons and property as preferable to a defeat equated with political, cultural, and even physical extinction. It was war with an acceptance of ferocity and brutality - anything to avoid defeat.

A number of historians have previously concluded that the founding struggle reached a level of ferocity few Americans now associate with the movement for independence. However, these studies have described what happened, without looking in detail at why the conflict took such a violent a turn. Written by two esteemed historians, War Without Mercy does exactly that. Based on years of research and enlivened by primary sources, this is a fresh look at a period of history we thought we knew.

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