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- 0:00Speaker 1: And this book came out this summer. It's a part
- 0:03Speaker 1: of a trilogy. It's by an author named Rick Atkinson,
- 0:08Speaker 1: and it's called The Fate of the Day and it
- 0:11Speaker 1: is volume two about his American Revolution. Subtitle is The
- 0:16Speaker 1: War for America Fort Ticonderoga and to Charleston seventeen seventy
- 0:22Speaker 1: seven to seventeen eighty. I have not finished it. I'm
- 0:26Speaker 1: about probably halfway right now. It is dense, but it
- 0:31Speaker 1: is phenomenal. I absolutely love it. One of the things
- 0:35Speaker 1: that I love and I read volume one two again.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Volume two just came out this year. I presume volume
- 0:40Speaker 1: three will be out in a couple of years. One
- 0:43Speaker 1: of the things that I really love about it is
- 0:45Speaker 1: they give you the perspective of the British two and
- 0:48Speaker 1: I feel like most of the time when I've read
- 0:50Speaker 1: about the American Revolution, you only hear in America about
- 0:55Speaker 1: how the American Revolution played here, and this actually takes
- 1:01Speaker 1: you into King George the Third, his decision