The Battle for Bunker Hill

Ketchum, R.M.: 1963 UK, hardcover with dust jacket, 232 pages, illustrated. Richard M. Ketchum's The Battle for Bunker Hill offers a comprehensive and fast-moving account of the pivotal first major battle of the American Revolution, detailing the events leading up to the fight on June 17, 1775, and the strategies employed by both the American and British forces. The book analyzes the characters, motivations, and blunders of the key leaders on both sides, vividly illustrating how the bloody engagement dispelled any notion of a swift resolution and solidified the conflict as a full-scale war. In very good condition