The American Civil War

ISBN-13: 9780712616102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 416 str.

John Keegan

Opis

This magisterial history of the first modern war is on the scale of John Keegan's classics, 'A History of Warfare' and 'The First World War'. In his sweeping, unputdownable narrative he highlights geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict.

Recenzje

Vivid and compelling Sunday Times

O autorze

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.