RECOMENDACIÓN: "BROTHERS IN ARMS: AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE AND THE MEN OF FRANCE AND SPAIN WHO SAVED IT", DE LARRIE D. FERREIRO

Hoy traigo al blog de La Ventana de la Ilustración y el Entretenimiento un excelente libro, que lleva por título "Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It", sobre la contribución española y francesa a la causa de la independencia de las Doce Colonias.

Escrito por Larrie D. Ferreiro, "Brothers at Arms" fue finalista al Premio Pulitzer en la categoría de ensayo histórico. Ésta es su sinopsis:

"At the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the American colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. 

The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. 

In his detailed accounts Larrie Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial support of the French and Spanish, the American cause would never have succeeded.

Ferreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish diplomats, merchants, soldiers, and sailors whose contribution is at last given recognition. 

Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Brothers at Arms reveals the birth of the American nation as the centerpiece of an international coalition fighting against a common enemy".

Publicada, en noviembre de 2016, por el sello editorial Knopf, perteneciente a Penguin Random House, y todavía inédita en España, "Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It" tiene 464 páginas y puede ser adquirida por un precio de 30,00 dólares.