Historian John Ferling's comprehensive, one-volume military history of the American Revolution provides a full account of the campaigns and battle, on land and on sea, as he makes history come alive and reminds us that while readers know how the war turned out, those involved in it during those difficult years did not--and that the colonists' victory was hard-fought and never a certainty. Ferling renders the grim realities of war as well as the dramatic human dimension of the years-long struggle out of which was forged a new nation.