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The famous battles that form the backbone of the story put forth of American independence—at Lexington and Concord, Brandywine, Germantown, Saratoga, and Monmouth—while crucial, did not lead to the surrender at Yorktown. It was in the three-plus years between Monmouth and Yorktown that the war was won. Alan Pell Crawford’s riveting new book, This Fierce People, tells the story of these missing three years, long ignored by historians, and of the fierce battles fought in the South that made up the central theater of military operations in the latter years of the Revolutionary War, upending the essential American myth that the War of Independence was fought primarily in the North. Weaving throughout the stories of the heroic men and women, largely unsung patriots—African Americans and whites, militiamen and “irregulars,” patriots and Tories, Americans, Frenchmen, Brits, and Hessians—Crawford reveals the misperceptions and contradictions of our accepted understanding of how our nation came to be, as well as the national narrative that America’s victory over the British lay solely with General George Washington and his troops.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780593318508","publication_date":"20240702","publisher":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","slug":"this-fierce-people","subtitle":"The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South","title":"This Fierce People"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":0.793,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Civil War Era","score":0.7853,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Colonial America (to 1775)","score":0.7765,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":0.793,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Civil War Era","score":0.7853,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Colonial America (to 1775)","score":0.7765,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"HIS031000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Revolutionary History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036030","confidence_band":"high","label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS036120","confidence_band":"high","label":"Southern U.S. History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","score":0.793,"slug":"revolutionary-america-1775-1800"},{"label":"Civil War Era","score":0.7853,"slug":"civil-war-era"},{"label":"Colonial America (to 1775)","score":0.7765,"slug":"colonial-america-to-1775"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers who enjoy Revolutionary America (1775-1800)","Good for readers interested in american","Good for fans of History"],"related_lists":[{"intro":"","slug":"shelf-his036030-revolutionary-period-1775-1800","title":"Revolutionary (1775 1800) Books","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/lists/shelf-his036030-revolutionary-period-1775-1800"},{"intro":"","slug":"shelf-his036050-united-states-civil-war-period-1850-1877","title":"United States Civil War (1850 1877) Books","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/lists/shelf-his036050-united-states-civil-war-period-1850-1877"},{"intro":"","slug":"shelf-his036020-colonial-period-1600-1775","title":"Colonial (1600 1775) Books","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/lists/shelf-his036020-colonial-period-1600-1775"}],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Joseph J. 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