The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington - Hardcover

Lockhart, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061958867 ISBN 13: 9780061958861

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2011

Synopsis

[ The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington Lockhart, Paul Douglas ( Author ) ] { Hardcover } 2011

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Paul Lockhart combines military and political history to offer a major reassessment of one of the most famous battles in American history.

One hot June afternoon in 1775, on the gentle slopes of a hill near Boston, Massachusetts, a small band of ordinary Americans--frightened but fiercely determined--dared to stand up to a superior British force. The clash would be immortalized as the Battle of Bunker Hill: the first real engagement of the American Revolution and one of the most famous battles in our history.But Bunker Hill was not the battle that we have been taught to believe it was.

Revisiting old evidence and drawing on new research, historian Paul Lockhart, author of The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, shows that Bunker Hill was a clumsy engagement pitting one inexperienced army against another. Lockhart tells the rest of the story, too: how a mob of armed civilians became America's first army; how George Washington set aside his comfortable patrician life to take command of the veterans of Bunker Hill; and how the forgotten heroes of 1775--though overshadowed by themore famous Founding Fathers--kept the notion of American liberty alive, and thus made independence possible.

About the Author:

Paul Lockhart is a professor of history at Wright State University, where he teaches European and military history. He lives in Dayton, Ohio.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061958867
• ISBN 13: 9780061958861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 414