"................readers are unlikely to find a more engaging or stirring recounting of the conflict and its place in the rebirth of the U.S. Navy.
"......................Daughan unravels the story of a nation that, without allies, sundered by partisan politics and sporting a military establishment that barely qualified as third-rate, managed to hold its own against the greatest power of the day.
"This finely researched volume is a sequel to (or continuation of) Daughan's award winning: If By Sea:The Forging of the American Navy - From the Revolution to the War of 1812.
"Complementing the well-written and exciting narratives of naval action are concise analyses of the Americans' abortive land campaigns along the Candadian border (necessary toward a full understanding of the conflict along the Great Lakes), the burning of Washington and the final redemption of the U.S. military at New Orleans. Daughan also spends some words on politics and diplomacy."
............... Wade G. Dudley for Military History magazine, Nov 2011.
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