Recommended Reading from SCLS: Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution

Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2013.

Bestselling author Philbrick takes us to Boston of 1775, 18 months after the Boston Tea Party with tensions mounting between the occupied British troops and the colonists. On April 19th violence erupted at Lexington and Concord. Two months later in June of 1775, the first major battle of the American Revolution, the bloody Battle of Bunker Hill occurred. While John Adams, Sam Adams, and John Hancock were in Philadelphia at the Second Continental Congress, a new leader emerged as the head of the revolutionary movement in Massachusetts. Joseph Warren, a physician and on-the-ground choreographer of the rebellion, was only 33 when the Battle of Bunker Hill took his life. Philbrick is an excellent writer and storyteller. He makes history come alive in whatever he writes.

This book is located in the Nonfiction collection (973.3312 PHI).