I recently finished reading a hardbound book I got from the library called "Damned Rebels" (a sort of humorous title). It's a very thorough study of the American Revolutionary War from the British point of view, but it's quite even-handed. Absolutely fascinating! I recommend it as good reading for anyone, American, Canadian, or British...it would hardly matter. It's an old book, so you might have some difficulty finding it, specially in the USA, I expect. It was written by an Englishman in the 1940s or 1950s (don't remember exactly).

I am now about 1/3 of the way through "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet. It's very good. It's a novel about the building of an English cathedral in the medieval period, and the lives of various individuals of that time.