The Whites of Their Eyes

A reassessment of one of the most famous battles in U.S. history combining military and political history by the author of The Drillmaster of Valley Forge . 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