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Bunker Hill a City, a Siege, a Revolution Hardcover - 2013
by Philbrick, Nathaniel
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- Hardcover
Philbrick, the bestselling author of "In the Heart of the Sea" and "Mayflower," brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution.
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- Title Bunker Hill a City, a Siege, a Revolution
- Author Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking, New York
- Date 2013
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 022270
- ISBN 9780670025442 / 0670025445
- Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.2 x 1.4 in (22.86 x 15.75 x 3.56 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: New England
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Locality: Boston-Worcester, Mass.
- Library of Congress subjects Boston (Mass.) - History - Revolution,, Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013001534
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.331
Summary
Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution.
Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord. In June, however, with the city cut off from supplies by a British blockade and Patriot militia poised in siege, skirmishes give way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It would be the bloodiest battle of the Revolution to come, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists.
Philbrick brings a fresh perspective to every aspect of the story. He finds new characters, and new facets to familiar ones. The real work of choreographing rebellion falls to a thirty-three year old physician named Joseph Warren who emerges as the on-the-ground leader of the Patriot cause and is fated to die at Bunker Hill. Others in the cast include Paul Revere, Warren’s fiancé the poet Mercy Scollay, a newly recruited George Washington, the reluctant British combatant General Thomas Gage and his more bellicose successor William Howe, who leads the three charges at Bunker Hill and presides over the claustrophobic cauldron of a city under siege as both sides play a nervy game of brinkmanship for control.
With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape—geographic and ideological—in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.
Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord. In June, however, with the city cut off from supplies by a British blockade and Patriot militia poised in siege, skirmishes give way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It would be the bloodiest battle of the Revolution to come, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists.
Philbrick brings a fresh perspective to every aspect of the story. He finds new characters, and new facets to familiar ones. The real work of choreographing rebellion falls to a thirty-three year old physician named Joseph Warren who emerges as the on-the-ground leader of the Patriot cause and is fated to die at Bunker Hill. Others in the cast include Paul Revere, Warren’s fiancé the poet Mercy Scollay, a newly recruited George Washington, the reluctant British combatant General Thomas Gage and his more bellicose successor William Howe, who leads the three charges at Bunker Hill and presides over the claustrophobic cauldron of a city under siege as both sides play a nervy game of brinkmanship for control.
With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape—geographic and ideological—in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.
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- Kirkus Best Nonfiction, 12/01/2013, Page 34
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- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 12/01/2012, Page 58
- New York Review of Books, 07/11/2013, Page 39
- New York Times Book Review, 06/09/2013, Page 16
- New Yorker (The), 05/27/2013, Page 81
- Publishers Weekly, 02/25/2013, Page 0
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