Nick Bunker is the author of MAKING HASTE FROM BABYLON, a history of the Mayflower Pilgrims described by the Washington Post as "a remarkable success." Educated at King's College, Cambridge and Columbia University, he was a journalist for the Liverpool Echo and the Financial Times, and then an investment banker, chiefly with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. During his careers in journalism and finance he travelled widely in China, India, the former Soviet bloc and the United States. He now lives in Lincolnshire, England.
 

Books by Nick Bunker

An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

by Nick Bunker - History, Nonfiction

In this powerful but fair-minded narrative, British author Nick Bunker tells the story of the last three years of mutual embitterment that preceded the outbreak of America’s war for independence in 1775. It was a tragedy of errors, in which both sides shared responsibility for a conflict that cost the lives of at least 20,000 Britons and a still larger number of Americans. At the heart of the book lies the Boston Tea Party, an event that arose from fundamental flaws in the way the British managed their affairs.