{"product_id":"war-without-mercy-2","title":"War Without Mercy","description":"\"Robust and focused\" - The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"History at its insightful and mesmerizing best\" - Nathaniel Philbrick \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on vivid contemporary accounts, this is a fascinating exploration of how and why the Revolutionary War descended into a brutal existential struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis engrossing history conclusively shows that those caught up in it believed they had nothing to lose by fighting without regard for the rules of so-called “civilized warfare.” The call to arms “Liberty or Death” was far more than just rhetoric. At its grimmest level, it was a conflict in which military restraint was more the exception than the rule, a struggle in which combatants believed their very existence was in question. This led to an acceptance of violence against persons and property as preferable to a defeat equated with political, cultural, and even physical extinction. It was war with an acceptance of ferocity and brutality – anything to avoid defeat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA number of historians have previously concluded that the founding struggle reached a level of ferocity few Americans now associate with the movement for independence. However, these studies have described what happened, without looking in detail at why the conflict took such a violent a turn. Written by two esteemed historians, War Without Mercy does exactly that. Based on years of research and enlivened by primary sources, this is a fresh look at a period of history we thought we knew.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58470009700687,"sku":"9781472880246","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781472880246_1-war-without-mercy.jpg?v=1786646728","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/war-without-mercy-2","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}