With Zeal and with Bayonets Only

The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783

De: Matthew H. Spring

Narrado por: John Skinner

The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.

This groundbreaking audiobook offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American rebellion” at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British tactical movements, Spring discloses how the system for training the army prior to 1775 was overhauled and adapted to the peculiar conditions confronting it in North America.

First scrutinizing such operational problems as logistics, manpower shortages, and poor intelligence, Spring then focuses on battlefield tactics to examine how troops marched to the battlefield, deployed, advanced, and fought. In particular, he documents the use of turning movements, the loosening of formations, and a reliance on bayonet-oriented shock tactics, and he also highlights the army's ability to tailor its tactical methods to local conditions.

Written with flair and a wealth of details that will engage scholars and history enthusiasts alike, With Zeal and with Bayonets Only offers a thorough reinterpretation of how the British Army's North American campaign progressed and invites serious reassessment of most of its battles.

©2008 University of Oklahoma Press (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks

A fine work of history ruined by a poor recording

This is a well-researched and informative work that covers a wide range of topics of interest to military historians and lay readers. Unfortunately, the audiobook falls apart abruptly with the listener subjected to hundreds of retakes. It’s infuriating to listen to and totally unprofessional. Shame on the audio editors.

narration was robotic and unemotional unfortunatel

narration was slow and robotic and unfortunately unemotional. the listening of this book stopped after 1 chapter very sad

The narration kills the story

The narration is awful. The editing left outtakes in the recording. You sometimes hear the same lines two or three times in a row, there's coughing and throat clearing, and when it's not riddled poor editing, it sounds like the narrator is bored with the material himself. Very disappointing.

Awful Narration Chapter 11/9 Unedited

I have listed to over 300 audiobooks on this app, and never left any review lower than 5 stars before this one. I got to chapter 11 in the audiobook navigation, chapter 9 in the book and it became unlistenable. The entire chapter seems to be unedited. The entire narration before then was stilted, robotic, and overall a chore to listen to. The substance and subject of the book itself are excellent, it's a shame the audiobook turned out so poorly.

Good content, ruff reader

The British military perspective of the American Revolution is a fascinating story. The reader for this edition is not easy or fun to listen to. His pronunciation is halting and slow. Good book, hard to listen to.

Terrible, mechanical narration!

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It was painful to listen to this book. I thought it was narrated by a robot. I deleted this book before the end.

What did you like best about this story?

The history was great.

What didn’t you like about John Skinner’s performance?

A dreadfully boring narration. PLEASE re-record with another voice. No robots.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

A great documentary in this material.

Any additional comments?

PLEASE re-record with a live narrator!!! Or provide a refund.

The editing is terrible at the the 13 hour mark.

I struggled to finish this book. It's a dry book, I came in with that anticipation, but it's a topic I have a great deal of interest and I was able to adjust to to the narrator being a bit robotic and gained the knowledge and learning I was looking for. until I hit about the 13 hour mark where the editing ceases. The narrator begins regularly clearing his throat, coughing, at one point he states, "I need water." and "That's not even a word." That is a problem with editing. It continues for approximately 45 minutes. it was excruciatingly painful. That section needs to be fixed. I will be seeking a refund.

Editing was trash, people should be fired

This excellent book was ruined by the editing of the audio. Repeated lines over and over, a dog barking, “that’s not even a word” frustrations by the narrator who should know that is how 18th people wrote when performing a history, cell phone noises. I hope Matthew Spring finds out about the atrocious editing of the audio and gets some just compensation. This is the worst performance of one of the best books about the American Revolution.

Very disappointing

This audio book was disappointing. It spent too much time discussing minutiae of the British army often in battles that are largely unknown to people familiar with the battles of the revolutionary war. Virtually no time on analysis of leadership and strategy or personalities of British leadership/campaign objectives. Chapter 8/13 was the worst audio segment I have heard with it sounding like a stuck recording and the narrator clearing his throat/repeating himself. I would not recommend this audio book to others

Good book Decent Performace

The book it self is great. Talks a lot about stratagy, drill and officer and generals opins on things.For most of the book the narrater is decent, does sound a bit robotic at times but at chapter 13 the narrator keeps messing up and keeps repating lines and mis reading ever few words and I even heard his fucken phone go off a few times. chapter 13 felt like they didnt give a shit about quality and just wanted to get the book done and didnt care to take a break or redue mistakes.