This book is a humorous look at some of the personalities and events of the American Revolutionary War. As such, I very much enjoyed my reading of this book, and would recommend it cheerfully.
In more or less chronological order, there are chapters about Benedict Arnold (who probably would not have turned traitor, had he been given proper promotion and recognition for his superb abilities), Paul Revere (who was not considered a hero by much of anyone until Longfellow immortalized him) and British general William Howe (who spend a considerable amount of time rather publicly with mistresses). There are chapters on how smallpox affected the Revolutionary Armies, on rough-hewn Colonials fighting with dandies from Paris, on the battle of King’s Mountain in South Carolina (between Colonial Patriots and Colonial Loyalists, with only one man present who was non-American), on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (who, besides composing the plays that the operas The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro were based on,  talked King Louis XVI into supporting the Americans and secretly sent gunpowder, money, and supplies to the American troops), and on the prison ships that the British used to confine captured Americans.
I very much enjoyed reading this book, and the author has written other books in the same vein on other subjects (such as the American Civil War), so I will be reading more of this author in the future.
From The Recamier 