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Title: An American View
Review: The book, overall, is a good description of the tactics, battles and problems encountered and sometimes overcome in this wasteful and pointless war. John Elting weaves present day overview well with comtemporary accounts. The book does have an American bias, however. Canadians supporting the USA are given better press than Americans supporting Britain and Canadian/British Irregulars (particularly the Indian) are depicted as little better than rapists and murderers (American Irregulars are, of course upstanding heroes). I certainly found enough in the book to make it worth reading but would make sure a new reader had other sources to compare with. Some sweeping generalisations and two-dimensional characterisation spoil what would otherwise be a very good book.
