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Bunker Hill A City, a Siege, a Revolution
by Philbrick, Nathaniel
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About This Item
New York: Viking, (2013). First Edition. First Printing Fine in black paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 398 pages of text including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and two sections of both color and black and white photographs of contemporary works of art. The author researched the men who followed Benedict Arnold in the march through Maine in 1775 to attack Quebec and afterward tracing their ordeal in capture and most returning to the colonies to rejoin their brothers in arms against the British.
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Title
- Bunker Hill A City, a Siege, a Revolution
- Author
- Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (2013)
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