Brendan Morrissey

While I liked some of this author's other writing for Osprey, at almost thirty years on since publication, this is a book that has become dated, particularly in terms of Morrissey's bibliography. Ten years ago I picked it up used (and very cheaply!), probably at a library book sale, because I had questions about nuts-and-bolts military details in regards to another work on 'Bunker Hill,' Paul Lockhart's "The Whites of Their Eyes." On the basis of such things as orders of battle, it still show more might have some utility, besides privileging a British perspective on events. I suspect that most readers are now going to pick up Nathaniel Philbrick's "Bunker Hill" as their go-to book on the battle. show less

Definitely dry, but quite informative. I purchased this book to add to my collection from a recent trip to Virginia. I wish I could have read the book before visiting Yorktown.