Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution - Couverture rigide

Philbrick, Nathaniel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 085752044X ISBN 13 : 9780857520449

Editeur : Doubleday, 2013

Synopsis

Sunday Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and The Last Stand Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the visceral and dramatic beginnings of one of the most significant episodes in American and British history: the American Revolution.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of In the Heart of the Sea, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and won America's National Book Award, Sea of Glory (winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize), Mayflower, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and most recently, the Sunday Times bestselling The Last Stand. He lives on Nantucket Island. Visit: www.nathanielphilbrick.com

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

What lights the spark that ignites a revolution?

What provoked a group of merchants, farmers, artisans and sailors in the American colonies to unite and take up arms in pursuit of liberty?

In 1775, Boston was a city of 15,000 inhabitants packed onto a land-connected island of over one square mile - and a city occupied by the British. In the year following that infamous declaration of intent, the Boston Tea Party, tensions between Great Britain and its increasingly resentful colonial subjects were mounting. In spite of a series of incendiary incidents by patriotic citizens and trouble-seeking vigilantes, an uneasy peace held.

But on 19th April violence erupted when British troops dispatched to seize rebel munitions held in nearby Lexington and Concord were defeated by local militiamen. If these skirmishes marked the beginning of America's revolutionary war, then it was two months later that the rebellious colonists faced the point of no return. On 17th June 1775, with the British-held Boston besieged by patriot forces, things came to a bloody head in one of the defining battles of the war: Bunker Hill.

Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and The Last Stand, shines new and brilliant light on this momentous story and the characters, familiar and unknown - and from both sides - who played such a vital part in the conflict. Written with passion and insight, even-handedness and the eloquence of a born storyteller, Bunker Hill brings to life the robust, chaotic and blisteringly real origins of America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 085752044X
• ISBN 13: 9780857520449
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible