Product Description

A City, a Siege, a Revolution

Boston in 1775 is an island city, occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots ranging from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. Following the infamous Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and locals warily manoeuvered around each other until 19 April, when violence suddenly erupted at Lexington and Concord. Then in June, with the city cut off by the British and the American militia braced for a siege, brief skirmishes gave way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It would prove to be the bloodiest battle of the Revolution to come, and marked a point of no return for the rebels.


True to form, Nathaniel Philbrick brings a fresh perspective to this momentous story, unearthing new characters and finding new sides to familar ones. It seems the real work of choreographing the rebellion fell to 33-year-old physician Joseph Warren, who would be the on-the-ground leader of the Patriot cause and fated to die at Bunker Hill. Others include Paul Revere, Warren's fiance - the poet Mercy Scollay, and a new recruit to the cause, George Wahsington. On the British side, there is reluctant combatant General Thomas Gage, and his more bellicose successor, William Howe, who leads three charges at Bunker Hill and presides over the claustrophobic cauldron of a city under siege as both sides play a dangerous game of bloody brinkmanship.


With passion and insight, the author reconstructs an extraordinary revolutionary landscape - both geographic and ideological - in this mesmerizing retelling of the robust, chaotic and blisteringly real origins of the United States of America...

This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title.

Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so.

Even if the picture shows no price stickers on the book they may be there on the copy you receive.

All of our books are in very good condition.

Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.