xiv+348pp+illus. Acclaimed historian John Keegan takes the reader on a tour of every major fortification and scene of battle in North America, from the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th-century to the final defeat of the native American population in the 19th-century. He shows how the unique character of the landscape and climate determined why and where men fortified, campaigned and were drawn to the battlefields - Yorktown, Gettysburg, Bull Run and others whose names are now part of mythology. Index. (First published in the UK in 1995 under the title Warpaths: Travels of a Military Historian in North America).

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