Sunday Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and The Last Stand Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the visceral and dramatic beginnings of one of the most significant episodes in American and British history: the American Revolution.
Sunday Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and The Last Stand Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the visceral and dramatic beginnings of one of the most significant episodes in American and British history: the American Revolution.
Nathaniel Philbrick is an historian and broadcaster whose books
include In the Heart of the Sea, which was a Sunday Times
bestseller and won America's National Book Award (and is director
Ron Howard's major new film), Sea of Glory (winner of the Theodore
and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize), Mayflower, a
Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the Sunday Times bestselling The Last
Stand.
He lives on Nantucket Island and is the founding director of the
Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and a research fellow at the
Nantucket Historical Association.
A notable merit of his account of the birth of the American
revolution is its fairmindedness . . . readable and sensible.
*SUNDAY TIMES*
Vivid, realistic and sometimes shocking . . . [character] is
certainly the animating spirit of this fine narrative history and,
in a sprawling, vibrant cast, the character that emerges most
forcefully is that of the city of Boston itself: tumultuous,
vigorous and fascinating.
*THE TIMES*
Admirably even-handed . . . this perceptive account.
*MAIL ON SUNDAY*
Brilliantly told. Philbrick is a master narrator who has deployed
every ounce of his considerable skill . . . to find the lifeblood
of early America
*THE TIMES*
This is popular history at its best: a taut narrative with a
novelist’s touch, grounded in careful research.
*MIAMI HERALD*
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