Winning Independence is the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain — so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar US a fatally weak nation ultimately failed to win the war.
John Ferling’s book “explores the choices and decisions made by Sir Henry Clinton and Gen. George Washington, and others, that ultimately led the French and American allies to clinch the pivotal victory at Yorktown that at long last secured American independence,” said a review in goodreads.com.
Winning Independence is the book “both for those of us who are looking beyond what was covered in our history classes and for anyone who wants a better and deeper presentation of the hows and whys of the US war of independence,” said the review.
“Most importantly, the reasons behind political and policy decisions, and the effort and the sheer amounts of skullduggery involved, are illustrated,” it added.
Ferling is a professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia.
A leading authority on American revolutionary history, he is the author of several books.
He has appeared in television documentaries on PBS, the History Channel, C-SPAN Book TV, and the Learning Channel.
