An Evening with historian John Ferling, Author of Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781

Historian John Ferling's book Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781, explores the second half of the Revolutionary War, when, after years of fighting, American independence often seemed beyond reach. Winning Independence tells the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain, so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar United States a fatally weak nation, ultimately failed to win the war.