The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

by Rick Atkinson

Winner of the George Washington Prize
Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award
Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

The paperback edition of the New York Times bestseller that the Wall Street Journal said was “chock full of momentous events and larger-than-life characters.”

Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. 

Interview with the Author

Ben Franklin’s World
280 Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming
8/11/20        62 min

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The Book Review
A Trilogy About the American Revolution Begins
5/24/19         72 min

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Conversations at the Washington Library
107. The British Are Coming
5/16/19      83 min

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The Book Show
#1613: Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775 – 1777”
6/18/19          30 min

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In the Past Lane – The Podcast About History and Why It Matters
146 The British Are Coming – The Crucial Early Years of the American Revolution
5/31/19         37 min

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Fully Booked by Kirkus Reviews
Rick Atkinson
7/9/19        72 min

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The Seattle Public Library – Author Readings and Library Events
Historian Rick Atkinson reads from “The British Are Coming”
7/11/19         74 min

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Talks at GS
Rick Atkinson
3/13/20        33 min

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The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly
Episode 46: Rick Atkinson
6/28/19        50 min

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Revolution 250 Podcast
The War for America with Rick Atkinson
2/2/21         34 min

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