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Title: Bunker Hill

Subtitle: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-15

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

What lights the spark that ignites a revolution?

Lost in the story of Americas path to independence is the tumultuous nature of that nations origins: the interplay of ideologies and personalities that provoked a group of merchants, farmers, artisans and sailors to take up arms in pursuit of liberty....

A city of 15,000 inhabitants packed onto a land-connected island a little over one square mile, Boston in 1775 was also - following a series of incendiary incidents by patriotic citizens and trouble-seeking vigilantes - a city occupied by the British.

In the year following the infamous Tea Party an uneasy peace had reigned, but on 19 April 1775 violence erupted, with skirmishes at Lexington and Concord. Two months later, with the city cut off by British forces, these clashes reached a bloody climax in an encounter that would mark the point of no return for the rebellious colonists: the Battle of Bunker Hill.

With a keen sense of the unexplored side of mythic events, Nathaniel Philbrick shines fresh light on this momentous story, revealing new key players and finding unknown sides to familiar ones. The real work of choreographing the rebellion fell to physician Joseph Warren (fated to die at Bunker Hill) while others include Warrens fiancee - the poet Mercy Scollay; Paul Revere; and a notable new recruit to the revolutionary cause, an elegant Virginian called George Washington. On the British side, reluctant combatant General Thomas Gage was succeeded by the bellicose William Howe, who would lead three charges at Bunker Hill and preside over the claustrophobic cauldron of a city under siege.

Written with passion, insight, even-handedness and the eloquence of a born storyteller, Bunker Hill brings to life the robust, chaotic and blisteringly real origins of America.

Members Reviews:

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This book was sitting on my desk for a couple of months unread as I bought it with the intent of a quick read to buttress my "large" knowledge base on the topic so I was in no rush. I was also not a fan of Philbrick's Mayflower.

The book starts a little slow but in retrospect, plants the seeds for the all important understanding of the battles that led to the formation of a cohesive cause for independence. In fact, I went back and reread the first 20% of the book after finishing the book, getting so much more out of it than initially and actually having much more interest in the first 20% the second time around.

This book is the most in depth and unique book of all the books I have read on the topic. I enjoyed it more and found it much more informative as well as more entertaining and informative than Fischer's Revere.

Philbrick lays the foundation of the mindset of the colonists, the serendipitous grouping of events that led to the escalation that truly gets you not just into the battles, but into the minds and hearts of the leaders, followers and townspeople. Many facts were revealed to me I had never known. This was not a cursory look at an "important time in nascent America" but an in depth look at leaders few know about often from a fragmented group that many were worried could lead to a military dictatorship during the fight to rid the colonists of the oppression of the British.