Description: The final volume in Michael G. Laramie's acclaimed histories of the European struggle for North America that set the stage for the French and Indian War, King George's War and the Thirty-Year Peace: The Third Contest for North America, 1714-1748, takes the reader along with the combatants into the field and waterways, including Native American, French, Spanish, Provincial, and British. Based on a rich variety of primary sources and fully illustrated with original maps, this volume joins the author's King William's War and Queen Anne's War as the modern history of these lesser-known--but enormously important--conflicts that shaped the political story of North America.
Review Quotes:
"With King George's War and the Thirty-Year Peace, Michael G. Laramie completes a trilogy of finely detailed and well-researched narratives that shed light on conflicts typically overshadowed by the French and Indian War."--Wall Street Journal
"This sweeping narrative continues [Michael G. Laramie's] series of books on Britain and France's colonial wars for North America. . . . His research has been exhaustive, including sources of American, British and Canadian information. . . . Students of American history will have much to learn from this detailed account of a continent-wide struggle between world powers."--Journal of America's Military Past
"Based on a rich variety of primary sources and fully illustrated with original maps, this volume joins the author's King William's War and Queen Anne's War as the modern history of these lesser-known--but enormously important--conflicts that shaped the political story of North America."--New York Almanac