The book, however, is mostly character driven with Philbrick drilling down to the life details of such notable historical figures as Joseph Warren, Sam Adams, John Hancock, George Washington and British generals Thomas Gage and William Howe. The Apfight at Lexington and Concord and the March 1776 siege of British-held Boston by the New England colonists are covered in considerable detail. While the title refers to the Jbattle just outside of Boston, the story is really about the start of the American Revolution and the key early events that shaped that conflict. My enjoyment of that book led me to The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn which provided a more accurate account of that battle than did They Died With Their Boots On.įor his most recent book, Philbrick returned to his Massachusetts roots with Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution.
I first became a fan of the historical writing of Nathaniel Philbrick after reading Mayflower, his history of not just the Pilgrims of early Plymouth County but of the settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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