A school of historians has grown up whose output is mostly the collection of representative contemporary accounts of the subject they are investigating. To me, this school has Henry Steel Commager's "The Blue and the Grey" as its touchstone. George Scheer and Hugh Rankin's effort is shorter, but it does convey the high points reasonably well. The usual mindset of this period is to convey an impression that the "Rebels" are Good and the British were bad!. My mind has often been teased by the concept that "The War of Independence" was a civil war, rather than a righteous uprising. "Rebels and Redcoats" has not much in it for a mind looking for material from that point of view. Pity. ( )