Name: The American Civil War
Author: John Keegan
ISBN: 9780307273147

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KEEGAN, John

The American Civil War

2009

1. History 2. War

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John Keegan The American Civil War (2009) Overview Keegan’s late-career single-volume history of the Civil War, subtitled A Military History, opens by measuring itself against his own most famous book: “I began an earlier book with the sentence ‘The First World War was a cruel and unnecessary war.’ The American Civil War, with which it stands comparison, was also certainly cruel, both in the suffering it inflicted on the participants and the anguish it caused to the bereaved at home. But it was not unnecessary.” That inversion is the whole…

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Accession:FL-0047

ISBN-13:9780307273147

Published:2009

Language:en

Shelved under:History, War

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