And the historian laughed...

[questron]

I've followed the Revolution Era Spy series "Turn" from the outset on and it is a fine television programme. Wonderful costumes, adequately correct scene buildings (for a good part i understand thanks to the museum village at "Colonial Williamsburg"... ) and a thrilling, meandering, surprising storyline throughout all episodes. It may not be the

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[asthenie_vd]

[questron]

Guess that's the only sane mindset when watching "historical" or "period" tv programs :D Enjoy the great things, ignore the garbage and never ever take out the history book to draw comparisons :D

Sounds lovely, a fact checking post by a person really aware of the subject would be nice to look over. Cheering for british wins is of course a fun hobby, after all they won what? 85% of all skirmishes, battles and campaigns, they just lost the war.

The book is absolutely worth it if you have no problem with a more academic style of writing (and you should be used to that from Uni anyway) and like the period and have already a certain baseline knowledge about what happens when and how the war went and so on...