#1636: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777”

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Nov 26 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson, who wrote the best-selling “Liberation” trilogy about the American effort in Europe during the Second World War, has now written the first book in a new trilogy to tell the story of the war that made America. It’s called “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, […]

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