Bunker Hill : a city, a siege, a revolution
(2013)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.3312/PHILBRICK,N
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PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Viking, [2013]
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 398 pages, 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780670025442 (hardcover), 0670025445 (hardcover), 9780670025442, 0670025445 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Part I: Liberty -- The city on the hill -- Poor unhappy Boston -- The long hot summer -- The alarm -- The unnatural contest -- Part II: Rebellion -- The trick to see it -- The bridge -- No business but that of war -- The redoubt -- The battle -- Part III: The siege -- The fiercest man -- The clap of thunder -- Epilogue: Character alone
Recounts the events of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, tracing the experiences of Patriot leader Dr. Joseph Warren, a newly recruited George Washington, and British General William Howe