Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2013
Place of publication: USA; Canada; United Kingdom; Ireland; Australia; New Zealand; India; South Africa; China
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781101622704
Description: From the Preface...

In the pages that follow, I hope to provide an intimate account of how over the course of just eighteen months a revolution transformed a city and the towns that surrounded it, and how that transformation influenced what eventually became the Unites States of America. This is the story of two charismatic and forceful leaders (one from Massachusetts, the other from Virginia), but it is also the story of two ministers (one a subtle, even Machiavellian, patriot, the other a punster and a loyalist); of a poet, patriot, and caregiver to four orphaned children; of a wealthy merchant who wanted to be everybody's friend; of a conniving traitor whose girlfriend betrayed him; of a sea captain from Marblehead who became America's first naval hero; of a bookseller with a permanently mangled hand who after a 300-mile trek through the wilderness helped to force the evacuation of the British; and of many others.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: The Decisive Day; label: Part I
title: Liberty; label: Chapter One
title: The City on the Hill; label: Chapter Two
title: Poor Unhappy Boston; label: Chapter Three
title: The Long Hot Summer; label: Chapter Four
title: The Alarm; label: Chapter Five
title: The Unnatural Contest; label: Part II
title: Rebellion; label: Chapter Six
title: The Trick to See It; label: Chapter Seven
title: The Bridge; label: Chapter Eight
title: No Business but That of War; label: Chapter Nine
title: The Redoubt; label: Chapter Ten
title: The Battle; label: Part III
title: The Siege; label: Chapter Eleven
title: The Fiercest Man; label: Chapter Twelve
title: The Clap of Thunder; label: EPILOGUE
title: Character Alone; label: Photographs; label: Acknowledgments; label: Notes; label: Bibliography; label: Illustration Credits; label: Index