While Bunker Hill is, in many ways, a spiritual sequel to Mayflower, the work is the first in a modest trilogy dealing with the American Revolution. The eminent popular historian of New England, fresh off the success of Mayflower, moves forward nearly a century to the second grand event in America’s national mythology: the Battle of Bunker Hill and the birth of the American Revolution. The climax of Nathaniel Philbrick’s Bunker Hill is as stirring as it is relatable. And here they now were, on the rooftops and on the hills-a city of loyalists, patriots, soldiers, and refugees-awaiting the outcome.” “Somehow it had come to this: a battle that could very well determine the fate of the English-speaking world.
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