"Dark violence and atrocities of the Revolutionary War" Topic
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Tango01  | 07 Nov 2019 8:36 p.m. PST |
"Holger Hoock's grimly detailed "history of violence" in the conflict between Great Britain and its rebellious colonies across the Atlantic offers a sobering corrective to the sanitized version of the American Revolution passed down through generations by the victorious United States. He paints a disturbing picture of what was in many ways a civil war, with both sides committing atrocities. He also provides a fascinating case study in the power of myth-making — and it seems only fitting that even at the birth of their nation, the Americans had a better grasp of the need for good publicity…."
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| Piyan Glupak | 07 Nov 2019 9:41 p.m. PST |
Can't see much of the article because I get nag-ware telling me to get a Facebook account. However, some of the books that I got for my Kindle when I started my American War of Independence 6mm armies told me much the same. This includes books written by US patriotic citizens in the 19th Century. |
 Dan Cyr | 08 Nov 2019 8:28 a.m. PST |
All true, but the treatment of American prisoners by the British government has been buried by time and intent. Dan |
| Ashokmarine | 08 Nov 2019 6:18 p.m. PST |
It's almost as if they thought war was sanitary. It's a very naive article. |
| Tango01 | 09 Nov 2019 11:12 a.m. PST |
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