Bunker Hill
A City, A Siege, A Revolution
(Sprache: Englisch)
The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative and perspective." (Boston...
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The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative and perspective." (Boston Globe)In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to pre-Revolutionary Boston and the spark that ignited the American Revolution. In the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party and the violence at Lexington and Concord, the conflict escalated and skirmishes gave way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It was the bloodiest conflict of the revolutionary war, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists. Philbrick gives us a fresh view of the story and its dynamic personalities, including John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and George Washington. With passion and insight, he reconstructs the revolutionary landscape geographic and ideological in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.
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Preface: The Decisive DayOn a hot, almost windless afternoon in June, a seven-year-old boy stood beside his mother and looked out across the green islands of Boston Harbor. To the northwest, sheets of fire and smoke rose from the base of a distant hill. Even though the fighting was at least ten miles away, the concussion of the great guns burst like bubbles across his tear-streaked face.
At that moment, John Adams, the boy s father, was more than three hundred miles to the south at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Years later, the elder Adams claimed that the American Revolution had started not with the Boston Massacre, or the Tea Party, or the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord and all the rest, but had been effected before the war commenced . . . in the minds and hearts of the people. For his son, however, the decisive day (a phrase used by the boy s mother, Abigail) was June 17, 1775.
Seventy-one years after that day, in the jittery script of an old man, John Quincy Adams described the terrifying afternoon when he and his mother watched the battle from a hill beside their home in Braintree: I saw with my own eyes those fires, and heard Britannia s thunders in the Battle of Bunker s hill and witnessed the tears of my mother and mingled with them my own. They feared, he recounted, that the British troops might at any moment march out of Boston and butcher them in cold blood or take them as hostages and drag them back into the besieged city. But what he remembered most about the battle was the hopeless sense of sorrow that he and his mother felt when they learned that their family physician, Dr. Joseph Warren, had been killed.
Warren had saved John Quincy Adams s badly fractured forefinger from amputation, and the death of this beloved physician was a terrible blow to a boy whose father s mounting responsibilities required that he spend months away from home. Even after John Quincy Adams had grown into adulthood and become a public
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figure, he refused to attend all anniversary celebrations of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Joseph Warren, just thirty-four at the time of his death, had been much more than a beloved doctor to a seven-year-old boy. Over the course of the two critical months between the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington Green and the Battle of Bunker Hill, he became the most influential patriot leader in the province of Massachusetts. As a member of the Committee of Safety, he had been the man who ordered Paul Revere to alert the countryside that British soldiers were headed to Concord; as president of the Provincial Congress, he had overseen the creation of an army even as he waged a propaganda campaign to convince both the American and British people that Massachusetts was fighting for its survival in a purely defensive war. While his more famous compatriots John Adams, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams were in Philadelphia at the Second Continental Congress, Warren was orchestrating the on-the-ground reality of a revolution.
Warren had only recently emerged from the shadow of his mentor Samuel Adams when he found himself at the head of the revolutionary movement in Massachusetts, but his presence (and absence) were immediately felt. When George Washington assumed command of the provincial army gathered outside Boston just two and a half weeks after the Battle of Bunker Hill, he was forced to contend with the confusion and despair that followed Warren s death. Washington s ability to gain the confidence of a suspicious, stubborn, and parochial assemblage of New England militiamen marked the advent of a very different kind of leadership. Warren had passionately, often impulsively, tried to control the accelerating cataclysm. Washington would need to master the situation deliberately and above all firmly. Thus, the Battle of Bunker Hill is
Warren had only recently emerged from the shadow of his mentor Samuel Adams when he found himself at the head of the revolutionary movement in Massachusetts, but his presence (and absence) were immediately felt. When George Washington assumed command of the provincial army gathered outside Boston just two and a half weeks after the Battle of Bunker Hill, he was forced to contend with the confusion and despair that followed Warren s death. Washington s ability to gain the confidence of a suspicious, stubborn, and parochial assemblage of New England militiamen marked the advent of a very different kind of leadership. Warren had passionately, often impulsively, tried to control the accelerating cataclysm. Washington would need to master the situation deliberately and above all firmly. Thus, the Battle of Bunker Hill is
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Autoren-Porträt von Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award; Mayflower, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Bunker Hill, winner of the New England Book Award; Sea of Glory; The Last Stand; Why Read Moby Dick?; and Away Off Shore. He lives in Nantucket. His newest book, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution, will be published in May 2016.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nathaniel Philbrick
- 2014, 416 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 13,7 x 21,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 014312532X
- ISBN-13: 9780143125327
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.10.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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Masterly Philbrick tells the complex story superbly. Wall Street Journal
A masterpiece of narrative and perspective Boston Globe
You will delight in the story and the multitude of details Philbrick offers up. USA Today
Riveting, fast-paced account Los Angeles Times
Lively Philbrick, guides us beautifully through Revolutionary Boston
New York Times Book Review
Philbrick writes with freshness and clarity St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This is popular history at its best: a taut narrative with a novelist s touch, grounded in careful research. Miami Herald
Philbrick has a flair for using primary sources to create scenes that sweep readers into the thick of history BUNKER HILL is a tour de force, creating as vivid a picture as we are likely to get of the first engagements of the American Revolution Philbrick is a gifted researcher and storyteller Chicago Tribune
Philbrick offers surprising revelations and others in BUNKER HILL, a comprehensive and absorbing account of a battle Extraordinary events produce extraordinary individuals, and Philbrick s portrayals are remarkably penetrating and vivid Given the scale of the story, Philbrick, confirming his standing as one of America s pre-eminent historians, somehow manages to address all the essential components in a concise, readable style Cleveland Plain Dealer
Like a masterly chronicler, [Philbrick] has produced a tightly focused and richly detailed narrative that just happens to resonate with leadership lessons for all times .Philbrick is at his most vivid in conveying scenes of battle, both on the road between Boston and Concord and on the ridges of Bunker Hill. But what adds depth to the narrative is his fine sense of the ambitions that drive people in war and politics.
Washington Post
Another fine history from Nathaniel Philbrick The Economist
Though you know the ending, you whip through the pages Entertainment Weekly
Quite masterfully, Philbrick does not sink to simply
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good and evil distinctions in the run-up to Bunker Hill. The author reminds us that the freedoms colonists wanted were never intended to apply to blacks, American Indians or women. This was a messy time when decisions were sometimes dictated by ambition instead of some nobler trait. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
[Philbrick] captures the drama martial and emotional of the months before and after this legendary clash. The New Yorker
Philbrick spices his text with first-person accounts from many participants in the drama, including patriots, loyalists, generals, privates, spies, even the victim of a tar-and-feathering. This is easy-reading history, uncluttered by footnotes and assisted by some excellent maps. Seattle Times
Fascinating .No one can tell you about the history you thought you knew quite like Philbrick
Cape Cod Times
Philbrick will be a candidate for another award with this ingenious, bottom-up look at Boston from the time of the December 1773 Tea Party to the iconic June 1775 battle .A rewarding approach to a well-worn subject, rich in anecdotes, opinion, bloodshed and Byzantine political maneuvering. Kirkus (Starred Review)
Exhaustively researched, intelligent, and engaging narrative with a sophisticated approach. Collections should certainly acquire this . Library Journal
Philbrick tells his tale in traditional fashion briskly, colorfully, and with immediacy .no one has told this tale better. Publishers Weekly
Crackling accounts of military movements a superior talent for renewing interest in a famed event, Philbrick will again be in high demand from history buffs. Booklist
Philbrick shows us historic figures, not only as if they had stepped away from their famous portraits, but as if we had read about them in last week s newspaper Philbrick has developed a style that connects the power of narrative to decisive moments in American history. Nantucket Today
A compelling, balanced and fresh narrative. Christian Science Monitor
Philbrick s research is phenomenal I suggest you pick up this enjoyable read. Washington Independent Review of Books
You ll never have history told like this in school. If it were, you might find more kids interested in it. The State Journal-Register
A gripping, suspense-driven recounting of the battles of Bunker and Breed s Hill I couldn t put this book down with its seductive, detail-sharpened, heart-stopping narrative made all the more human by the people involved powerful, eloquent, infinitely compelling, and just plain awesome. Providence Journal
[Philbrick] captures the drama martial and emotional of the months before and after this legendary clash. The New Yorker
Philbrick spices his text with first-person accounts from many participants in the drama, including patriots, loyalists, generals, privates, spies, even the victim of a tar-and-feathering. This is easy-reading history, uncluttered by footnotes and assisted by some excellent maps. Seattle Times
Fascinating .No one can tell you about the history you thought you knew quite like Philbrick
Cape Cod Times
Philbrick will be a candidate for another award with this ingenious, bottom-up look at Boston from the time of the December 1773 Tea Party to the iconic June 1775 battle .A rewarding approach to a well-worn subject, rich in anecdotes, opinion, bloodshed and Byzantine political maneuvering. Kirkus (Starred Review)
Exhaustively researched, intelligent, and engaging narrative with a sophisticated approach. Collections should certainly acquire this . Library Journal
Philbrick tells his tale in traditional fashion briskly, colorfully, and with immediacy .no one has told this tale better. Publishers Weekly
Crackling accounts of military movements a superior talent for renewing interest in a famed event, Philbrick will again be in high demand from history buffs. Booklist
Philbrick shows us historic figures, not only as if they had stepped away from their famous portraits, but as if we had read about them in last week s newspaper Philbrick has developed a style that connects the power of narrative to decisive moments in American history. Nantucket Today
A compelling, balanced and fresh narrative. Christian Science Monitor
Philbrick s research is phenomenal I suggest you pick up this enjoyable read. Washington Independent Review of Books
You ll never have history told like this in school. If it were, you might find more kids interested in it. The State Journal-Register
A gripping, suspense-driven recounting of the battles of Bunker and Breed s Hill I couldn t put this book down with its seductive, detail-sharpened, heart-stopping narrative made all the more human by the people involved powerful, eloquent, infinitely compelling, and just plain awesome. Providence Journal
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