porting warfare
Oct 1st 2009
From The Economist print edition
|  | An early intimation of even greater horrors to come |
The American Civil War: A Military History. By John Keegan. Knopf; 416 pages; $35. Hutchinson; £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
A BRITISH
military historian, even one as distinguished as Sir John Keegan, is
hard put to say something new about America’s civil war. Fine American
scholars, such as Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote and James McPherson, have
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