| Private Matter | 05 Jun 2015 7:20 p.m. PST |
I'm looking for books that either about Tarelton during the AWI or the British Legion or any of the British/Loyalist units during the the Southern Campaign. I am looking for both fact and/or fiction. Hopefully some of you folks can give me some decent recommendations. |
| EMPERORS LIBRARY | 05 Jun 2015 10:01 p.m. PST |
Shameful plug here! ;)
My AS I book collection volume 5 has Tarleton's own memoirs and the memoirs of a Legion member. emperorslibrary.com Regards,
Paul |
| Supercilius Maximus | 06 Jun 2015 10:35 a.m. PST |
Tarleton and Simcoe both wrote detailed accounts of their parta in the Southern campaigns, up to and including the siege of Yorktown. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 07 Jun 2015 3:41 a.m. PST |
Just remembered – here's an excellent (American) website on Tarleton that cites many primary sources and gives a more honest and accurate picture of him:- link |
| 7th Va Cavalry | 07 Jun 2015 6:40 a.m. PST |
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| Supercilius Maximus | 07 Jun 2015 8:53 a.m. PST |
By Robert Bass? Noooo – avoid. It's the book that invented most of his AWI nicknames. The bits with the actress are vaguely interesting, but you're left wondering how accurate even that bit it. Oh, hang on – the OP said he didn't mind fiction. OK, as you were. |
| historygamer | 09 Jun 2015 2:44 p.m. PST |
I have that one, haven't read it. That bad? Reading Ira Gruber's The Howe Brothers now. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 10 Jun 2015 2:14 a.m. PST |
Long time since I read Bass, so I may be doing him a slight dis-service in my old age. But probably not much. If you already have it, give it a go, but from memory I wouldn't go out and buy it unless it was cheap in a fleamarket (which is where I got mine, now I come to think of it). Enjoyed Gruber; given how much more limited our knowledge of the war was when he wrote it, it still stands up well, IMO |
| historygamer | 10 Jun 2015 3:28 a.m. PST |
Gruber's book on the Howe's was not what I expected, and it is rather damning – at least towards William, if not Lord Howe. It is definitely a higher level read, but still seems pretty good. I don't recall reading some of his takes on who liked or disliked who in The Men Who Lost America. |
| Rawdon | 11 Jun 2015 3:55 p.m. PST |
The AWI in the South being my #1 interest in both wargaming and military history, this is an interesting question that has no good answer. The truth is (admittedly always subjective so in this case just MHO but it is MY truth at any rate) that there is no good biography of Tarleton, and I have been continuously amazed that no academic has written one. If I had had a private income it without question would have been my PhD dissertation 35+ years ago … unfortunately I needed to take a degree that would assist my gainful employment … |
| Minenfeld | 13 Jun 2015 3:46 p.m. PST |
Simcoe and Tarleton's memoirs are available on google books. |
| Minenfeld | 05 Jul 2015 2:40 p.m. PST |
Brutal Virtue is also an excellent book, and the author is American ! |
