Best Historical Novels About Joseph Warren

Joseph Warren

Joseph Warren was an American physician and Patriot leader in Massachusetts during the opening of the American Revolution. He helped organise resistance to British policy and dispatched Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn that troops were marching toward Lexington and Concord.

Commissioned as a major general, Warren chose to fight as a volunteer at Bunker Hill and was killed there in 1775. His death made him an early martyr of the revolutionary cause.

Deryn Lake’s Death at the Boston Tea Party brings patriot physician Joseph Warren into John Rawlings’s investigation as a medical contact whose links with the Sons of Liberty expose the detective to Boston’s revolutionary underground. Ann Rinaldi’s The Secret of Sarah Revere places Warren within the Revere family’s world as resistance turns into open rebellion. Hourly History’s Battle of Bunker Hill follows Warren to the fighting of June 1775 and his death as a volunteer in the redoubt. Nathaniel Philbrick’s Bunker Hill treats Warren as a political organiser and battlefield participant rather than merely a patriotic symbol. David Hackett Fischer’s Paul Revere’s Ride shows how Warren’s intelligence network and warnings helped set the Lexington and Concord alarm in motion.

Historical novels and book series featuring Joseph Warren (1 series)

John Rawlings in Order

by Deryn Lake 17 books 4.2(11,535)

The John Rawlings mysteries follow a young London apothecary whose trained eye for physical detail and talent for deduction repeatedly draw him into murder investigations. Working at first alongside Sir John Fielding, the blind Bow Street magistrate known as the “Blind Beak”, Rawlings moves through pleasure gardens, theatres,…