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• From one of the world’s preeminent and bestselling military historians comes a vivid history of war on our own continent. John Keegan has visited battlefields throughout the world, but finds himself constantly returning to North America which he loves. Here, geography and climate have shaped the course of military history as they have nowhere else in the world. Guided by his central wisdom, Keegan takes us on a tour of every major fortification and scene of battle on the continent, from the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth century to the establishment of New France on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, and from the French conflicts with the British of the Atlantic colonies to the battles with the Native populations in the nineteenth century.

• Part military history, part travelogue, Warpaths allows us to see how war in Canada and America shaped and was shaped by the land. John Keegan’s matchless insight allows us to discover how strife and battle created our heritage.

Reviews:

• “Fascinating…insightful…a pleasure to read.” –Montreal Gazette

• “John Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians.” –The New York Times Book Review

• John Keegan was a favorite military historian of mine since his Face of Battle in the 1970’s. Warpaths is a very easy narrative that is part memoir , part travelogue, and a good analysis of geographic elements of North American wars. Keegan wrote in a narrative style that is informative and accessible to the general reader. The book includes the French and Indian War, Revolution, Civil War and Indian Wars. As a British historian, Keegan has always had fresh insights and interesting commentary. This volume was also published as Fields of Battle which came out a year later.

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE FRSL (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle.