Bunker Hill

In one of the bloodiest encounters of the Revolutionary War, a rag tag group of colonials changed the course of American history by momentarily defeating the world's mightiest army.

In evoking the iconic battles that set fire to the American Revolution, a master storyteller brings alive the determined, yet often irreverent and ironic British Generals Howe and Clinton and the American commanders, who had little knowledge of war yet fought with stirring courage and a handful of farmers and townsmen. Heroes of the carnage include Dr. Joseph Warren, who knew nothing of war but who commanded the American colonials, and Dr. Evan Feversham an English surgeon married to an Americanwho is amazed and frightened by the seeming chaos of the Yankees, but ultimately comes to admire their character and leadership. The characters, events, and battles themselves leap off the page, and the author transports you back in time so you become an actual witness to one of America's great historic events.

THE PREQUEL TO THE CROSSING

In Bunker Hill, Howard Fast provides insight into both American and British points of view during the battle for control of Boston in June 1775-the outcome of which would dramatically influence the strategies of George Washington and Sir William Howe for the rest of the war. Most dramatic of all is the battle for Breed's and Bunker hills: On one side, a few hundred American men and boys, fighting in the fashion they learned from the American Indians; on the other, three thousand soldiers of the mightiest army on Earth. What follows is one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution. There, for a moment in time, the American rebels turned back Europe's best-trained soldiers before they were forced to flee.

A stirring recreation of the Revolutionary battle at Bunker Hill by the master, page turning novelist Howard Fast

Howard Fast is fiercely American, he is one of ours, one of our very best.

-The Los Angeles Times

One battle will determine the fate of Boston

Three thousand soldiers from the world's greatest army are cornered in Boston, surrounded by farmers and doctors turned rebel soldiers and generals. For a week both sides are at an impasse, until June 17, 1775, when the standstill comes to a violent, bloody end on Breed's and Bunker hills.

In Bunker Hill, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the unlikely battle that changed the course of the Revolutionary War forever. Tensions rise among both the British and Colonial soldiers as political and tactical frustrations, dissent, confusion, and fear threaten to tear both sides apart before the fighting even begins.

Fast is at his best as Storyteller.

-Christian Science Monitor

In "Bunker Hill," master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the unlikely battle that changed the course of the Revolutionary War forever.

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In "Bunker Hill," master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the unlikely battle that changed the course of the Revolutionary War forever.