The War of 1812 is an accessible non-fiction account of the Military Conflict Between the United States of America and Great Britain That Started During the Napoleonic Wars. It establishes the causes, chronology and principal phases of the conflict while explaining the political aims and military resources of the opposing sides.
The book places campaigns and leadership within their wider setting, including diplomacy, civilian experience, economic pressure and the settlement or memory that followed. Its historical scope is represented on HBS by War of 1812. Key figures linked to the book include James Madison, Andrew Jackson.
