Robert Leckie: A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars
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"Leckie is a gifted writer with the ability to explain complicated military matters in laypersons terms, while sustaining the drama involved in a life-and-death struggle. His portraits of the key players in that struggle […] are seamlessly interwoven with his exciting narrative. " Booklist"As always, [Leckie] describes the maneuvers, battles, and results in telling detail with a cinematic style, and his portraits […] are first-rate. "The Dallas Morning News"Leckies accounts of battles, important individuals, and the role of Native Americans bring to life the distant drama of the French and Indian Wars. "The Daily Reflector With his celebrated sense of drama and eye for colorful detail, acclaimed military historian Robert Leckie charts the long, savage conflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy in pre-Revolutionary America. Packed with sharply etched profiles of all the major playersincluding George Washington, Samuel de Champlain, William Pitt, Edward Braddock, Count Frontenac, James Wolfe, Thomas Gage, and the nobly vanquished Marquis de Montcalmthis panoramic history chronicles the four great colonial wars: the War of the Grand Alliance (King Williams War), the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Annes War), the War of the Austrian Succession (King Georges War), and the decisive French and Indian War (the Seven Years War). Leckie not only provides perspective on exactly how the New World came to be such a fiercely contested prize in Western Civilization, but also shows us exactly why we speak English today instead of Frenchand reminds us how easily things might have gone the other way.