Andro Linklater

The Men Who Lost America, by Andrew O’Shaughnessy – review

The birth of the United States was a more complex — and less heroic — drama than the one enshrined in American folklore, says Andro Linklater

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  • The Men Who Lost America: British Command During the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of Empire

    Andrew O’Shaughnessy

    Oneworld, pp. 466

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