With vivid dramatizations of battles, eyewitness accounts, original documents, and paintings, this program portrays the untold story of the American Revolution. Renowned British military historian Richard Holmes hosts the series, which focuses on the military struggle-the soldiers, leaders, tactics, and strategy of this grand conflict. Told from an unusual point of view-that of the British losers-the series at the same time explores painful conflicts within the American populace, taking viewers inside the vicious battles of brothers, friends, and families forced to choose sides between loyalist and rebels.