Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle.
Drawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle.
Mark Edward Lender is Professor Emeritus of History at Kean University. He is author or co-author of more than a dozen books including, with James Kirby Martin, the acclaimed A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789 (Wiley, 2015) - which for several years was required reading at West Point - and, with Garry Wheeler Stone, the award-winning Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016). He served on the design team for the Army's special 250th Anniversary Exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Army. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
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Preface Prologue Chapter 1: "Fighting Justly"? Jus in Bello and Its Problems Chapter 2: Of "Enemies External and Internal" War to the Knife in Revolutionary New Jersey Chapter 3: Theater of Fear - Existential War in the West Chapter 4: "A Contagion of Violence" The New York Frontier Chapter 5: Target New London - Benedict Arnold from Jus in Bello to "Hard Line" Chapter 6: War without Mercy - The Tragedy of the South Epilogue: A Word from Thucydides Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
Preface Prologue Chapter 1: "Fighting Justly"? Jus in Bello and Its Problems Chapter 2: Of "Enemies External and Internal" War to the Knife in Revolutionary New Jersey Chapter 3: Theater of Fear - Existential War in the West Chapter 4: "A Contagion of Violence" The New York Frontier Chapter 5: Target New London - Benedict Arnold from Jus in Bello to "Hard Line" Chapter 6: War without Mercy - The Tragedy of the South Epilogue: A Word from Thucydides Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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War Without Mercy is a necessary corrective to the long-held belief that the American Revolution was more about high-minded ideals than brutal warfare. As Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin vividly demonstrate, Americans found themselves in a no-holds-barred conflict of terrifying violence from which the country has yet to recover. This is history at its insightful and mesmerizing best.
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