Stephen R. Taaffe
Author of MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign
About the Author
Stephen R. Taaffe is associate professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.
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The author does a good job of moving the timeline forward while informing the reader of the broad strokes of three years of the war. Descriptions and brief back stories of the important people are paired with the key battles in which they participated or plans they made. This includes those in Parliament. Although the descriptions of the battles are brief, there are many included, which gives a comprehensive summary of the many events from 1776 to 1778. All of this taken together makes for an excellent guide to the campaign centered on the British occupation of Philadelphia.… (more)