Fields of Battle

Fields of BattleBy: John Keegan At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people. "[A] magisterial narrative history, enriched by an authorial voice." The Washington Post Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil.

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