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A City, a Siege, a Revolution
Viking Adult
May 2013
On Sale: April 30, 2013
416 pages
ISBN: 0670025445
EAN: 9780670025442
Kindle: B00AFPVNWY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
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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