Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans
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From the author of bestselling works of history and fiction comes a fast-paced retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent and of Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite, who joined forces to repel the British invasion of New Orleans in January 1815. Unabridged. 8 CDs. The Washington Post - Adam Rothman In Patriotic Fire , Winston Groom tells the astonishing story of how a ragtag corps of backwoodsmen, Louisiana creoles, refugees, pirates, Indians and free African Americans defeated a large, disciplined, experienced and professional British army at the Battle of New Orleans on Jan. 8, 1815 -- a day that Americans used to celebrate as a national resurrection. Groom, the author of Forrest Gump and several works of military history, has written a book that's neither original nor entirely reliable; it is pieced together from other historians' scholarship and occasionally dubious sources. Yet it is lively and interesting to read against the backdrop of current events.
