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In With Fire and Sword: The Battle of Bunker Hill and the Beginning of the American Revolution (2011), Nelson portrays the events in Boston with a sarcastic, if not sardonic, literary flourish and proffers some controversial, though occasionally lightly substantiated, conclusions. Joseph Warren pride of place throughout the work. Thomas Fleming’s 1963 classic rendering, Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill, does great justice to the story by paying special attention to the similarities between the commanders of both armies and, like Philbrick, awards Dr. The drama of Bunker Hill and the early days of the American Revolution has seduced many writers, from novelists (Howard Fast) to popular authors (John Ferling and James L. Philbrick’s strength rests with a thorough comprehension of the printed primary and secondary literature as well as his nuanced understanding of the personalities involved in this critical period of history. Bunker Hill provides a unique perspective on military history and is in many ways a multilayered popular biography, examining colonial Massachusetts and the era of the battle of Bunker Hill.

Bunker Hill is the first volume in a proposed Revolutionary War trilogy (with Saratoga and Yorktown to follow). Reviewed by Greg Brooking (Georgia State University)Īward-winning author Nathaniel Philbrick, best known for In the Heart of the Sea (2000), Mayflower (2006), and The Last Stand (2010), returns to colonial America in his latest offering. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution.

Bunker hill by nathaniel philbrick sparknotes