bhswanson 's review for:

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick

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About more than just the Batlle of Bunker Hill, the book covers the whole sweep of events in and around Boston from the early 1770s through the British evacuation in spring 1776, with particular focus on the role and character of Joseph Warren, the Boston doctor turned patriot leader who was killed at the battle. There was much here that I had not known - about the British administration's missteps and the patriot conspiracies that heightened tensions, about the evolution of the military situation after Lexington and Concord, and about the battle itself.