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Now Available! Order Now! Rush out in a Buying Frenzy!

My latest book, With Fire and Sword, is now officially available! It may take a week or so for it to filter into book stores, but it is available for immediate order at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com and Borders.com, among others.

This book is something of a departure from my usual maritime theme, being about the early days of the American Revolution, culminating in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Having done two books about the beginning of the Revolution (Benedict Arnold’s Navy and George Washington’s Secret Navy) I found I was fascinated by the period. 

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Early Reviews of With Fire and Sword:

Publisher’s Weekly: 

This rousing history rescues Bunker Hill from its folkloric shroud and pre-sents it as one of the revolution’s more significant and dramatic battles. Historian and novelist Nelson (Benedict Arnold’s Navy) calls the 1775 engagement–a struggle for high ground from which American artillery could hit the British stronghold in Boston–the revolution’s “first real battle.” Nelson’s gripping portrait of the battle caps a lively chronicle of the early days of the rebellion in Massachusetts and of the revolutionaries’ scramble to establish a government and organize an army as they edged uneasily toward independence. Nelson’s well-researched, entertaining account of the revolution’s opening chapter aptly conveys the difficulty and riskiness of the patriots’ gamble. 

Kirkus (starred review) 

A clever, often sardonic history of an iconic battle.  

Prolific historian Nelson (George Washington’s Great Gamble: And the Sea Battle that Won the American Revolution, 2010, etc.) begins in turbulent 1760s Massachusetts, which, in his often tongue-in-cheek narrative, resembles less the traditional high-school patriotic pageant than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Nelson makes an entertaining case that the American Revolution may have been won on Bunker Hill. 

Booklist:

The battles of Lexington and Concord, deemed the “shots heard around the world,” are usually considered the opening conflicts of the Revolutionary War. Perhaps so, but as Nelson indicates in his detailed and stirring account, the subsequent battle at Bunker Hill had a much greater impact in both America and Britain.

This is a well-done examination of a critical battle, ideal for general readers.