The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies Audiobook

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• “Easily the most sophisticated book ever written about a conflict that is often either neglected or seriously misunderstood…Taylor’s discussions of diplomatic and political maneuvering are woven with military set-pieces into a powerful narrative…[This] book affirms his gifts for prodigious research.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Remarkable and deeply researched…Taylor masterfully captures the strangeness of this war.”

  — New York Review of Books

• “In this deeply researched and clearly written book, [Taylor] tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America.”

  — Washington Times

• “Credit Taylor with blowing most of the dust off America’s most forgotten war. This is history with a capital H.”

  — Seattle Times

• “Comprehensive…Taylor’s account of a land war that roughly divided people with a common culture and heritage provides a new dimension for an understanding of 1812.”

  — Boston Globe

• “A truly spellbinding narrative. Unlike other books on the War of 1812, [Taylor’s] is about the hearts and minds of the people who planned it, fought it and lived through it. Almost every page brings a revelation.”

  — Toronto Star

• “An impressively accessible history…A perceptively nuanced take on a war often forgotten or misunderstood…Taylor offers persuasive arguments, a lively narrative.”

  — Richmond Times Dispatch

• “Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Taylor…presents the War of 1812 not as the conventionally understood second war for independence, but as a civil war waged in the context of a US-Canadian boundary barely separating kindred peoples, recently and incompletely divided by the revolution.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Thoroughly researched…Taylor illuminates an arena generally omitted from military histories of the war. Battles and campaigns do connect his account, however, which will stand history collections in good stead for a very long while.”

  — Booklist