Cornwell here ventured once again into the realm of history and describes the historical fact took place the siege of a British fort in the American Revolutionary War by American state militias. Setup and output of the book have been announced thus and let the author, unlike his fictional historical novels little freedom. The book because it shows also the effort to want to be historically authentic and both sides to be as much as possible justice. Unlike many other Cornwell where beaten whim, pillaged and is drunk, he is the subject of much methodological, which always leads to lengths when military or political relationships are illuminated in detail. For the military enthusiasts that's all really exciting, especially when you get the error described on both sides and sometimes wonder how such an accumulation of incompetence and envy at all could get a result. For the lovers of historical novels, it is sometimes very tough to read, if, for example is described haarklein as a down shooting muzzle-loading must be filled, so that the ball does not just get rolled forward. Then there would also suffer somewhat the otherwise very colorful character portrayals Cornwellschen that stop here have to bend the historical record itself. All in all, a good book for anyone who wants to know how a siege in detail works and how many mistakes you this ultimately could do when the thing to amateurish (as Americans) or with too few resources (like the British) As, however, no Cornwellscher Page Turner in the classical sense. I still give it 5 points because Cornwell here indeed more wants to deliver a history book than a novel, and a military history report is well worth reading.