Lefferts C.M. Uniforms of the American, British, French, and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution 1775-1783

Old Greenwich, Conn.: WE, Inc., 1926 [1976 reprint]. -285 pgs. Originally published in 1926 this book was the only volume which detailed the uniforms used by the the armies in this war. The author spent 30 years researching the archives of the participating countries and, together with his record of the uniforms, he provides complete details of the history of the units. Lefferts was the first to use deserter descriptions from contemporary newspapers to compile a large collection of information on otherwise unrecorded details.