Includes bibliographical references (p. [653]-661) and index

Introduction: My Country, My Honor, My Life: Bravery and Death in War -- Part. One. Going To War, 1775-1776 -- Chapter 1. Fear Is Not an American Art: The Coming of the War -- Chapter 2. A Loss That Is Greater Than We Can Bear: Going to War -- Chapter 3. Choices: 1775 -- Part. Two. The War In The North, 1776-1779 -- Chapter 4.Hastening Fast to a Crisis: June 1775-June 1776 -- Chapter 5. Choices, 1776 -- Chapter 6. Knock Him Up for the Campaign: The Battle for New York, 1776 -- Chapter 7. This Hour of Adversity: To the End of 1776 -- Chapter 8. Choices, 1777 -- Chapter 9. The Caprice of War: America's Pivotal Victory at Saratoga -- Chapter 10. We Rallied and Broke: The Campaign for Philadelphia, September, December 1777 -- Chapter 11. Choices, 1778 -- Chapter 12 . A Respectable Army: The Grim Year, 1778 -- Chapter 13. Choices, 1779 -- Chapter 14. A Band of Brotherhood: The Soldiers, the Army, and the Forgotten War in 1779

Chapter 15. We Have Occasioned a Good Deal of Terror: The War at Sea -- Chapter 16. Choices, 1780 -- Part Three. The War In The South, 1780-1781-- Chapter 17. A Year Filled with Our Disgraces: Defeat in the South, 1780 -- Chapter 18. Southern Means and Southern Exertions: Hope and Despair, June-December 1780 -- Chapter 19. Choices, 1781-- Chapter 20. Bloody and Severe: The Pivotal Southern War, Early 1781-- Chapter 21. We Are Suspended in the Balance: Spring and Summer 1781-- Part Four. American Victory, 1781-1783 -- Chapter 22. America Is Ours: Victory at Yorktown ,178 -- Chapter 23. Choices, 1782 -- Chapter 24. May We Have Peace in Our Time: Peace and Demobilization, 1782-1783 -- Chapter 25. Little Short of a Miracle: Accounting for America's Victory

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