- Hardcover: 519 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684834332
- ISBN-13: 978-0684834337
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,118,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A novel set in the 1750s, with America's vast riches up for grabs. British and French troops wage continuous war against each other - American colonial militias backing British General Edward Braddock, the Caughnawanga and Algonquin Indian tribes siding with the French.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think this book contributed to the break up of my last relationship!!!
I found it on a book stall in London and took it with me on a romantic weekend to Paris with my ex, intially just for the train ride but the book was sooo good I neglected the girlfriend and couldnt put it down.
The story is set in North America before the revolution in the Seven Years War between the forces of the French, (plus their Indian Allies and their colonist) and the British (plus their Indian Allies and their colonists.) The story follows several characters on both sides including Colonel George Washington through a lot of battles, sieges, failures over many years and to eventual victory by the British forces despite all their reverses and disasters.
Its very well told and like I said I couldnt put it down!! If you like Clancy or the Sharpe novels you will like this too.
I found it on a book stall in London and took it with me on a romantic weekend to Paris with my ex, intially just for the train ride but the book was sooo good I neglected the girlfriend and couldnt put it down.
The story is set in North America before the revolution in the Seven Years War between the forces of the French, (plus their Indian Allies and their colonist) and the British (plus their Indian Allies and their colonists.) The story follows several characters on both sides including Colonel George Washington through a lot of battles, sieges, failures over many years and to eventual victory by the British forces despite all their reverses and disasters.
Its very well told and like I said I couldnt put it down!! If you like Clancy or the Sharpe novels you will like this too.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Entertaining but incomplete
15 Dec 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
While I enjoyed this book much more than Coyle's Civil War books - perhaps because I knew less of this history so was not as critical - I still feel that he is not totally comfortable with historical fiction. Apart from some obvious anachronisms, what seems most strained in this book is Coyle's effort to present fully rounded and believable native American characters. Unfortunately, as drawn, these characters have the stilted 'noble redman' quality that American Indians are frequently stereotyped with - even the 'bad' ones.
Still, Coyle's story is entertaining and his characters are, for the most part, engaging. I would have preferred more follow through - a more clear rounding out of the story so that one had some sense of what had happened to all the main characters. It seemed like a lot was left unresolved (so there can be a sequel?).
In any event, as Coyle continues down the path of historical fiction, each book seems to be better than the one before.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
What about the Savages?
9 Nov 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was an interesting book, as it told the story of several men during the French and Indian War. A British officer,a French officer, a Scot who fought as an enlisted British soldier and a Caughnawaga native. The story was well told and historically accurate and each character blossomed during the story, especially the native. But as I finished the book each was the fate of his own destiny, except the native. He completely vanished from the ending. I was very disappointed due to the fact that most of the beginning of the book focused so much on him. Even with that fact it is a fine book to enjoy.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
An American history buff's unexpected find
9 Nov 1997
Format:Hardcover
American history books devote little space and attention to the Frech and Indian war. Coyle's panoramic backdrop for relating the story of this war along the colonial frontier from Lake George, NY to Ft. Dusquene (the eventual site of Pittsburg, PA) captures the historic essence of this, the last of the great colonial wars. Coyle deftly intertwines the exploits of four main characters - a French army officer, a colonial soldier of the Virginia militia, an Indian ally of the French, and a British army officer - to show: the basic French motive to simply lay claim to all of the unsettled areas of North America; the inept effort by ill-equipped and ill-trained colonial militia to oust the French and their Indian allies from their western frontier; the major role of the Indians in inflicting the worst rout ever experienced by a white force in the new world; and the ill-suited battle tactics of the regular English army in the dense forests of the frontier. Only the French decision not to continue
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