Warpaths john keegan biography

  • 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.
  • Award-winning historian John Keegan explores their relationship and examines the battles fought over three centuries between Frenchman and Indian, Royalist and.
  • Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan, OBE, FRSL was a British military historian, lecturer and journalist.

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    John Keegan

    Praise for Warpaths

    Keegan visits all the battle sites in turn and brings them to life with the evocative prose that his admirers will remember from The Face of Battle...This opus is a labour of love

    Mail on Sunday

    An excursus on the military sites of North America that cleverly marries theme and chronology

    History Today

    He combines personal experiences with professional observations in a way that makes this sterling book an engrossing blend of anecdotal reminiscence and analytical reflection. Like all good writers of good history, ...

    Daily Telegraph

    Keegan visits all the battle sites in turn and brings them to life with the evocative prose that his admirers will remember from The Face of Battle...This opus is a labour of love

    Mail on Sunday

    An excursus on the military sites of North America that cleverly marries theme and chronology

    History Today

    He combines personal experiences with professional observations in a way that makes this sterli

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    Keegan visits all the battle sites in turn and brings them to life with the evocative prose that his admirers will remember from The Face of Battle...This opus is a labour of love

    An excursus on the military sites of North amerika that cleverly marries theme and chronology

    He combines personal experiences with professional observations in a way that makes this sterling book an engrossing blend of anecdotal reminiscence and analytical reflection. Like all good writers of good history, Keegan distils the complex into the essence

    A beguiling example of the trend for fusing history and travel

    This is a book by a historian in a confident mood

    About John Keegan

    John Keegan is 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 th

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    Warpaths

    February 14, 2025
    Of the many books by John Keegan that inom have read, this is bygd far the least enjoyable. Two stars is probably a harsh assessment, but there are a few points that annoy me greatly about the book, and overshadow the scholarship and insight that are also present in significant quantities.
    First, the positive. As usual, Keegan looks for parallels and contrasts in defining historical people, places, or battles. In this book he analyses the geography of North America and describes 4 wars on its soil in terms of the limitations and opportunities offered bygd key strategic points. The wars include those between English and French in Quebec, the American Revolution, the Civil War's Penninsular campaign, and the wars of extermination of the Native Peoples in the Plains territories (including Custer's Last Stand). He convincingly argues that the twin keys to North America are the St. Lawrence/Lake Champlain/Hudson River corridor and the extended Mississippi watershed. O