A Few Acres of Snow:The Saga of the French and Indian Wars

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“Leckie is a gifted writer with the ability to explain complicated military matters in layperson’s terms| while sustaining the drama involved in a life-and-death struggle. His portraits of the key players in that struggle . . . are seamlessly interwoven with his exciting narrative.” -Booklist”As always| [Leckie] describes the maneuvers| battles| and results in telling detail with a cinematic style| and his portraits . . . are first-rate.”-The Dallas Morning News”Leckie’s accounts of battles| important individuals| and the role of Native Americans bring to life the distant drama of the French and Indian Wars.”-The Daily Reflector
With his celebrated sense of drama and eye for colorful detail| acclaimed military historian Robert Leckie charts the long| savage conflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy in pre-Revolutionary America. Packed with sharply etched profiles of all the major players-including George Washington| Samuel de Champlain| William Pitt| Edward Braddock| Count Frontenac| James Wolfe| Thomas Gage| and the nobly vanquished Marquis de Montcalm-this panoramic history chronicles the four great colonial wars: the War of the Grand Alliance (King William’s War)| the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War)| the War of the Austrian Succession (King George’s War)| and the decisive French and Indian War (the Seven Years’ War). Leckie not only provides perspective on exactly how the New World came to be such a fiercely contested prize in Western Civilization| but also shows us exactly why we speak English today instead of French-and reminds us how easily things might have gone the other way.