THE BOSTON MASSACRE An Intimate History

Andrea Gallo narrates with feeling, dropping her pitch and broadening her tones for men in authority. But she does not even attempt the accent that still distinguishes an English aristocrat--born or trained to it--from anybody else on the planet. But then Zabin is more taken with what colonials and colonizers had in common than with their differences, tonal and otherwise. The British army of that time traveled en famille. Once posted, the redcoats seemed keener on marriage than mayhem. Despite the "massacre," in which just five were killed, this listener begins to wonder how our ancestors ever got a war going at all. "You say 'tomato,' I say 'tomahto,' let's call the whole thing off." B.H.C. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2020]