American Revolution Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution, Book 1, (Paperback)

from noblechicken

Philbrick has created another interesting, readable narrative of American History. I was enthralled, the subject of this battle has always grabbed my attention, since I was a young boy listening to the Pickwick dramatization record called Sounds of 1776, the wakening moments of the Revolutionary ...

from Sullywriter

If you're looking for a moment-by-moment account of the first major battle of the American Revolution, you need to look elsewhere. The battle is the centerpiece but not the only event Philbrick chronicles in this sweeping history of the beginnings of the American Revolution. Beginning with the ye...

from mybucketlistofbooks

Well written as all of Philbrick's books are. He avoids the tendency of some popularizers of American History to add suspense and additional drama to certain events that have become highlighted guide points in how we relate our history to each other - things like Paul Revere's ride, the Boston Ma...

from dsha67

Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill is an excellent book on the early days of the American Revolution. It focuses on the period post the French and Indian War, including the Thomas Gage years being the Royal Governor of Massachusetts and being responsible for locking down Boston and enforcing the c...

from Othemts

Another brilliant work of Massachusetts and American history by Philbrick.  Like Mayflower, which was about the first three generations of the Plymouth colony through King Phillip's War, Bunker Hill is more than it's title implies.  It covers the period of a little over two years from the destruc...