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How Military Quagmires Have Caught Mighty Powers by Surprise Portrait of Sir Henry Clinton (1732-95).Credit...DeAgostini/Getty Images By Thomas E. Ricks May 21, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET We probably have too many books about the Civil War and World War II, but certainly could use closer examinations of our less understood conflicts. So it is good to see several new works explore more obscure corners of American military history. In WINNING INDEPENDENCE: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781 (Bloomsbury, $40), the veteran historian John Ferling sets out to redeem the reputation of S...

Historian John Ferling's book Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781, explores the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of fighting, American independence often seemed beyond reach. Winning Independence tells the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain, so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar United States a fatally weak nation, ultimately failed to win the war. Trending