Those Who Fought: The American Revolution (nonfiction)
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
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Kostya Kennedy
4.01 avg rating — 883 ratings 2. 
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John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
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Evan Thomas
4.01 avg rating — 1,627 ratings 4. 
Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
by:
Terry Golway
4.13 avg rating — 550 ratings 5. 
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
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Simon Schama
3.97 avg rating — 1,057 ratings 
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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Rick Atkinson
4.44 avg rating — 7,776 ratings 9. 
Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution 4.17 avg rating — 1,879 ratings
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A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
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Ray Raphael
3.90 avg rating — 510 ratings 9. 
Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution
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Bevis Longstreth
4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings 9. 
God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
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Jack Kelly
3.93 avg rating — 523 ratings 9. 
Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution
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Jack Warren
4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings 15. 
Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776
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Patrick Spero
3.92 avg rating — 115 ratings 16. 
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
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Kathleen DuVal
3.87 avg rating — 541 ratings 18. 
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
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Joseph J. Ellis
3.94 avg rating — 4,307 ratings 20. 
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army
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Paul Lockhart
4.17 avg rating — 914 ratings 20. 
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
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John Ferling
4.19 avg rating — 3,275 ratings 22. 
The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
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John Oller
4.13 avg rating — 1,950 ratings 22. 
The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution
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John Buchanan
4.25 avg rating — 61 ratings 24. 
Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War
by:
Thomas B. Allen
3.77 avg rating — 342 ratings 25. 
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The Hessians and the American Revolution
by:
Daniel Grimes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 26. 
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
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Alan Taylor
3.91 avg rating — 231 ratings 28. 
Light-Horse Harry Lee Lib/E: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero
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Ryan Cole
4.05 avg rating — 186 ratings 28. 
Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War 3.85 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
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Maya Jasanoff
3.97 avg rating — 1,034 ratings 
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Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes
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Paul Staiti
3.94 avg rating — 114 ratings 
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Mud & Guts: A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
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Bill Mauldin
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 35. 
Liberty or Death: The Surprising Story of Runaway Slaves who Sided with the British During the American Revolution 3.38 avg rating — 50 ratings
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New Jersey Hessians: Truth and Lore in the American Revolution
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Peter T Lubrecht
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 37. 
From Savannah to Yorktown: The American Revolution in the South
by:
Henry Lumpkin
3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings 39. 
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The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
by:
Rod Andrew Jr.
4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings 41. 
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
by:
Gary B. Nash
4.04 avg rating — 558 ratings 41. 
The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution
by:
Thomas Fleming
4.21 avg rating — 110 ratings 
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The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 4.06 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution 3.57 avg rating — 218 ratings
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The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier
by:
Edward J. Cashin
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 49. 
Shadow Soldiers of the American Revolution: Loyalist Tales from New York to Canada
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Mark Jodoin
3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 49. 
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm 4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Letters of Brunswick and Hessian Officers During the American Revolution really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bergen County Voices from the American Revolution: Soldiers and Residents in Their Own Words
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Todd W. Braisted
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 55. 
Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution
by:
Stan Mack
3.75 avg rating — 89 ratings 57. 
The Marquis De Lafayette: French Hero of the American Revolution
by:
Gregory Payan
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 58. 
British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution
by:
Donald N. Hagist
4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings 59. 
How the French Saved America: Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI, and the Success of a Revolution
by:
Tom Shachtman
3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings 
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Mud & Guts: A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
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Bill Mauldin
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 61. 
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown 4.12 avg rating — 5,302 ratings
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Women Soldiers, Spies, and Patriots of the American Revolution
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Martha Kneib
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 64. 
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation 4.06 avg rating — 385 ratings
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British Soldier's Story : Roger Lamb's Narrative of the American Revolution 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The American Revolution: Life of a Soldier inWashington's Army
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Gail B. Stewart
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 73. 
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Soldiers for Sale: German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination 3.75 avg rating — 751 ratings
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A Hessian Soldier in the American Revolution
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Stephen Popp
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 77. 
Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything
by:
Maira Kalman
4.05 avg rating — 801 ratings 
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Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
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John Ferling
3.94 avg rating — 1,279 ratings 81. 
The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution: (Abridged, Annotated)
by:
W.B. Hartgrove
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 81. 
Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson's Struggle to Save the University That Changed America
by:
Rex Bowman
3.87 avg rating — 90 ratings 83. 
"Strong and Brave Fellows": New Hampshire's Black Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution, 1775-1784 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
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Henry Wiencek
3.98 avg rating — 815 ratings 85. 
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Deborah Sampson, Soldier of the Continental Army: An American Woman Who Fought During the American War of Independence
by:
Herman Mann
2.92 avg rating — 26 ratings 
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A Hessian Officer's Diary of the American Revolution Translated From An Anonymous Ansbach-Bayreuth Diary and The Prechtel Diary
by:
Bruce Burgoyne
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 89. 
Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father 3.47 avg rating — 727 ratings
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War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation
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John Sedgwick
3.91 avg rating — 713 ratings 96. 
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How the Irish Won the American Revolution: A New Look at the Forgotten Heroes of America's War of Independence 3.48 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Blacks, Indians & Women in America's War for Independence
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Dudley C. Gould
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings