True to the Old Flag

JINGOISM REARS ITS UGLY HEAD

(3 stars)

Avid Listener

I realize that Henty's books were historical novels, but his reputation as a historian suffers greatly with this work. Certainly, his assertion that British troops won virtually every pitched is true, but he adroitly sidesteps the fact that not one, but TWO British armies surrendered in the field, a happening fairly unprecedented in the military annals of Britain. We learned in Vietnam what Britain learned in America--a majority of the people in a foreign land cannot be subjugated by anything less than total (and perpetual) military occupation, a crushing expense not to be assumed. Henty should have read the writings of John Adams when he asserted that by the time war started the majority of the colonials were American, not British. Henty also alludes to instances of colonial mistreatment of prisoners, but he conveniently fails to even mention Britains use of prison ships wherein deaths of hundreds and even thousands of colonial troops reached proportions approaching fifty percent.

henty but not at his finest

(3 stars)

Tina

A British perspective of the Revolutionary War. I found the historical setting interesting and the book brought details about the revolutionary war that I wasn’t familiar with, but the plot felt lacking. It didn’t have the same care for a good story while telling history that most of the Henty books have. I found some of the readers a bit hard to listen to because of mispronunciations.

Not Henty’s Best

(2.5 stars)

Heslep

As a thoroughly biased American patriot, I consider this the worst of Henty’s books. It seemed forced, didn’t have as good of a story as is normal with his books, and he tried to force his point (that the colonials were wrong to resist unlawful tyranny) a little too hard to the point of being overly blunt.

i loved it thank you for thinking of it

(5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

i think it is a good bit of fighting for a amazing story but I still think it's great!

(3 stars)

Tim

Several chapters were read by a young man with particularly bad pronunciation af common terms. Needs to be redone.

(5 stars)

Somerled

GREAT book by Henty. the story is brought to life

(5 stars)

America’s independence

This is very interesting story about the history of America.

Randall

(4 stars)

Randall Morton

The most historical book I ever read. The book which may of captured interest and pride of the English, as written, it is impossible to believe that the English could have possibly lost the war. The witlessness of American command and should have created a situation where the English army promptly crushed the American rebellion. The American losses in men and military equipment, as per the text, should have rendered the rebellion totally hopeless. The American fighters seemed always fleeing from the battle and many times in a wild confused way that the collected large stockpiles of cannon, shot, and gunpowder. A flagrant prejudiced depiction of the War of Independence.