A Few Bloody Noses: The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution
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A Few Bloody Noses: The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution
Customer reviews (10)
27 July 2015Realities, mythologies, and suppositions from the perspective of a RedCoat.
The book contains as much supposition as it does facts.
30 August 2012Patriotism. Last refuge of a scoundrel?
Some of the reviewers of this book have revealed an over-sensitive patriotism along with a concomitant anti-Britishness.
13 December 2010The View from the Other Side
If you want a pro-British, almost anti-American view of the Revolutionary War, this book by a British Author fills the bill.
2 May 2010Revisionist History or Sore Losers?
If you like to believe our Founding Fathers, as well as all Americans in the 1770s and 1780s, were the angels depicted in our elementary school textbooks, then you probably should not read this book.
13 December 2008Important Book -- However, Like A Rattlesnake It is Injurious to Your Health
How can I defend 5 stars with my title?
27 June 2006Hallucinogenic Revisionist History
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7 November 2005Little Bit of How the Other Side Saw It
As someone who isn't very familiar with the American Revolution, I was looking for a summary history, preferably one that didn't get bogged down in the mythology that all too often surrounds old wars.
23 September 2004Controversial, Entertaining, Flawed
The varied reader reactions contained in the reviews below aptly illustrate the nature of Harvey's book.
20 October 2003Some things to think about here.
This is not a light book, nor is it the objective historical record.
22 June 2003Arguing with the ghosts of historians past
History is written by the winners, and this is British journalist Robert Harvey's attempt to rewrite it from the losers' perspective.