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Bunker Hill [LP] a city, a siege, a revolution

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Main Author:	Philbrick, Nathaniel (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book Large Print
Language:	English
Published:	Detroit : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013.
Edition:	Large Print edition.
Subjects:	Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775. Boston (Mass.) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783. Large print books.
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Physical Description:	817 pages (large print), [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 727-814).
ISBN:	9781410457783 1410457788
Author Notes:	Nathaniel Philbrick was born in Boston Massachusetts on June 11, 1956. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Brown University and a master's degree in American literature from Duke University. In 1978, he was Brown University's first Intercollegiate All-American sailor and he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, Rhode Island. After graduate school, he worked for four years at Sailing World magazine. Afterward, he worked as a freelancer for a number of years and wrote/edited several sailing books including Yachting: A Parody. After moving to Nantucket in 1986, he became interested in the history of the island and wrote Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People. In 2000 he published In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. A motion picture of the book was released in December 2015. His other books include Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition; Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War; The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn; Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution; Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution, and In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown. (Bowker Author Biography)