Friendly Fire
Bernard Porter: Torching the White House, 21 February 2008
Fusiliers: Eight Years with the Redcoats in America
by Mark Urban.
Faber, 384 pp., £20, September 2007,978 0 571 22486 9 Show More
by Mark Urban.
Faber, 384 pp., £20, September 2007,
1812: War with America
by Jon Latimer.
Harvard, 637 pp., £22.95, October 2007,978 0 674 02584 4 Show More
by Jon Latimer.
Harvard, 637 pp., £22.95, October 2007,
“... of view of the Canadians, who didn’t want to be saved, it was far from pointless. That’s why Jon Latimer regards it on balance as a British victory. It’s probably also the reason Americans don’t make all that much of it, though some things mattered: the sacking of Washington DC, of course; the occasional instances of heroism (some of them ... ”