A People Numerous and Armed

. . .Shy has produced one of the most thoughtful and perceptive discussions of the war to date. More than any other historian of the Revolution, he has caused us to reconsider the war as a deeper social and political process." —Reviews in American History

". . .the scholarship of a leading military historian at his best, dealing not just with tactics and strategy but with the manifold social, political, and economic problems created by and related to the War for Independence." —William and Mary Quarterly