by Pierre Berton. Softbound, 368 pages, 6" x 9". In this remarkable account of the war's first year, Pierre Burton transforms history into an engrossing narrative that reads like a fast-paced novel. Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and official dispatches, the author gets inside the characters who fought the war--the common soldiers, the generals, the bureaucrats and the profiteers, the traitors, and the loyalists. A gripping account of a fascinatingly complex war that shaped the boundaries of America as we know them today.