Warpaths - Hardcover

Keegan, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550136216 ISBN 13: 9781550136210

Publisher: Key Porter Books, 2002

Synopsis

Military history and geography explain each other in North America as nowhere else in the world. Award-winning historian John Keegan explores their relationship and examines the battles fought over three centuries between Frenchman and Indian, Royalist and colonist, Union and Confederacy.

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From the Inside Flap:

From one of the world's preeminent and bestselling military historians comes a vivid history of war on our own continent. John Keegan has visited battlefields throughout the world, but finds himself constantly returning to North America which he loves. Here, geography and climate have shaped the course of military history as they have nowhere else in the world. Guided by his central wisdom, Keegan takes us on a tour of every major fortification and scene of battle on the continent, from the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth century to the establishment of New France on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, and from the French conflicts with the British of the Atlantic colonies to the battles with the Native populations in the nineteenth century.

Part military history, part travelogue, Warpaths allows us to see how war in Canada and America shaped and was shaped by the land. John Keegan's matchless insight allows us to discover how strife and battle crated our heritage.

From the Back Cover:

"Fascinating...insightful...a pleasure to read." --Montreal Gazette

"John Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians." --The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1550136216
• ISBN 13: 9781550136210
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370