The Drillmaster of Valley Forge
by Paul Lockhart | 
The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Go Like Hell
by A. J. Baime | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll |
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer | 
The History of Jihad
by Robert Spencer | 
Five Days at Memorial
by Sheri Fink |
The Oregon Trail
by Rinker Buck | 
The History of Surfing
by Matt Warshaw | 
Washington's Immortals
by Patrick K. O'Donnell |
Seven Fallen Feathers
by Tanya Talaga | 
American Gun
by Chris Kyle | 
Mythos
by Stephen Fry | 
No Way Out
by Mitch Weiss | 
Swords and Swordsmen
by Mike Loades |
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
by Gale R. Owen-Crocker | 
Easy riders, raging bulls
by Peter Biskind |
Drawingupon new research and scholarship, historian Paul Lockhart, author of thecritically acclaimed Revolutionary War biography The Drillmaster of ValleyForge, offers a penetrating reassessment of the first major engagement ofthe American Revolution. In the tradition of David McCullough's 1776,Lockhart illuminates the Battle of Bunker Hill as a crucial event in thecreation of an American identity, dexterously interweaving the story of thispivotal pitched battle with two other momentous narratives: the creation ofAmerica's first army, and the rise of the man who led it, George Washington.