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At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people, Fields of Battle displays all the boldness of insight and elegance of style that John Keegan brought to his vastly acclaimed A History of Warfare.
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Spanning more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent, Keegan shows how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil. He revisits fields of combat from Quebec to Little Bighorn and retraces Washington's triumph and McClellan's defeat at Virginia battlefields only a few miles apart. And on every page, Keegan combines masterly scholarship with the unjaundiced eye of a latter-day de Tocqueville to give Americans a brilliant reassessment of their military heritage.
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