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 *

John Keegan was 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.

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