1812 War With America: War with America

click here for more details, find new or used items	Jon Latimer Our price £21.80 (£22.95) New from £12.49 Used from £12.76 Pages: 656 (Hardcover) ISBN: 0674025849 Pub: Harvard University Press Pub date: 2007-09-04 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10757

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Honest and v readable history (3/4 people found this helpful)

This is the first British account of the Anglo - American war of 1812 written fot a long time. It was very readable and honest. It clearly sets out to change the opinion of the war (largely American - it is even less well known outside of America) as another War Of Independence and a conflict that was a clear American victory against British aggression. The author shows that the war was started by the Americans and their aims to improve their naval / sailors rights and to grab land of Canada were both failures. The British got v little out of the war either - apart from a lot of casualties and a lot of debt. The Americans put up some pretty stuiff resistance against the British and Canadians - Britain herself was embroiled in the latter stages of the Napoleonic War at the time - a conflict that must have seemed like a 20th century world war. The author puts the War of 1812 in the much wider contect of the Napoleonic Wars and treats it as an interesting sideshow to that event. The American navy did particularly well against its much more powerful adversary.

Up to now I have read several books on the War of 1812 - all I beleive written by Americans - some general books on the entire conflict and one about the British defeat at New Orleans. This book has redressed the balance that I got from these books which tended to hero worship the Americans - particularly the futurer President Andrew Jackson who comes across in this book as not altogether pleasant and a bit of a war monger.

This is a great book and I hope it is read by a lot of Napoleonic / War of 1812 ehthusiasts.

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