American Spring
Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

There seems to be a lot of books discussing the opening salvos of the American Revolution. Nathanial Philbrick's book is much more interesting and tells the exact same story with some attention payed to the larger deliberations and a stronger back story. Paul Lockhart wrote a book a few years back w......more

This short history covers the 3 months prior to and the 3 months following the running firefight from Concord -Lexington-Cambridge to the bloody (for 1775) battle of Bunker/Breed’s hill . The writing is not great nor is it terrible. As the author says in his acknowledgements, his intent was “to tell......more

If you're like me, a former 1970s-era elementary school student, you got a fairly shallow treatment of the Revolutionary War era. You might have learned about the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, the Declaration of Independence, and Washington's eventual victory. This boo......more

In American Spring, Walter Borneman intends to give a history of the events of spring 1775 that helped launch the American Revolution. This tumultuous time sparked the incidents that would go down in history as the start of the War of Independence. In his epilogue, Borneman says that he set out to t......more

A little slow in places, but by far the most in depth review of the battles of Lexington and Concord as well as the battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill that I've read. The author has done a great job of researching sources on both sides of the conflict and presents compelling arguments behind why many of......more