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The American Civil War
John Keegan
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Description for The American Civil War
Paperback. The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. This book unpicks the geography, leadership and strategic logic of the war and takes us to the heart of the conflict. Num Pages: 416 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 320.
The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but the reality of it confuses and divides historians even today.
In this magisterial history of the first modern war, the distinguished military historian John Keegan unpicks the geography, leadership and strategic logic of the war and takes us to the heart of the conflict. His captivating work promises to be the definitive history of the American Civil War.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712616102
SKU
V9780712616102
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About John Keegan
John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.
Reviews for The American Civil War
Vivid and compelling
Sunday Times
It is hard to see how Keegan's masterful and thought-provoking book could be beaten
Daily Telegraph
In its range and sweep, this book is difficult to better and promises to become the definitive account of the conflict
Daily Mail
One of our finest military historians, Keegan brings a shrewd and discerning eye to [the] conflict... compelling
Literary Review
The best military historian of our day
New York Times
As a military historian John Keegan has the qualities of the best commanders
Observer
Keegan's historical command is dazzling
Independent
John Keegan brings his subject alive and is particularly good on how unreliably nasty (yes, nasty is surely the word) war can be, and what it does to the men whose job is to take part in it
Nicholas Bagnall
Telegraph
Keegan tells the story of war between the industrial North and the agricultural South, and that's very good. But what I loved most, and what Keegan is always superb at, is analysis
William Leith
The Scotsman
You would be hard pressed to find a better written one-volume history of this epic struggle
Simon Shaw
Guardian
Sunday Times
It is hard to see how Keegan's masterful and thought-provoking book could be beaten
Daily Telegraph
In its range and sweep, this book is difficult to better and promises to become the definitive account of the conflict
Daily Mail
One of our finest military historians, Keegan brings a shrewd and discerning eye to [the] conflict... compelling
Literary Review
The best military historian of our day
New York Times
As a military historian John Keegan has the qualities of the best commanders
Observer
Keegan's historical command is dazzling
Independent
John Keegan brings his subject alive and is particularly good on how unreliably nasty (yes, nasty is surely the word) war can be, and what it does to the men whose job is to take part in it
Nicholas Bagnall
Telegraph
Keegan tells the story of war between the industrial North and the agricultural South, and that's very good. But what I loved most, and what Keegan is always superb at, is analysis
William Leith
The Scotsman
You would be hard pressed to find a better written one-volume history of this epic struggle
Simon Shaw
Guardian