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]

Yeah, it's event TV, not a historical documentary. While some more accuracy would be nice I've stopped expecting it from TV shows a while ago. Regarding the villains you also have to take into account how emotionally invested particularly Americans tend to be about the founding years of their nation, even if they know little of the actual history. There's such a Romantic rhetoric connected to it, that I guess a lot of the core audience would not forgive a TV show for tearing down

[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...