Author : Charles Patrick Neimeyer
Release : 1996
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 804/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis America Goes to War by : Charles Patrick Neimeyer
Download or read book America Goes to War written by Charles Patrick Neimeyer. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have all known from before grade school that The American Revolution was won by a classless citizen army made up of farmers and artisans burning with patriotism and determination. Neimeyer (Naval War College) reminds us that being absolutely certain of something does not make it true. He finds that the upper classes generally neglected to sign up, and that the army was primarily composed of African-Americans, Irish, Germans, Native Americans, laborers-for-hire, and white men without fixed addresses; they rarely cared anything about the high ideals being spouted in the drawing rooms and conference halls. They adamantly refused to enlist for the duration of an open-ended war, mutinied, deserted, and resisted officers and government. They were, he demonstrated, real soldiers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR