John Keegan The American Civil War Audiobook torrent

The American Civil War
A Military History
Edition: Unabridged
John Keegan
Robin Sachs
Publisher: Books on Tape
13 mp3 files; 56kbp
History / Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781415966631
Release date: Oct 20, 2009

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For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America\'s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lin
gering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished c
ombatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundred known to us by name. Now Keegan examines these and other puzzles with a peerless understandin
g of warfare, uncovering dimensions of the conflict that have eluded earlier historiography.

While offering original and perceptive insights into psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics, Keegan reveals the war\'s hidden shape--a consequence of leadership, the ev
olution of strategic logic, and, above all, geography, the Rosetta Stone of his legendary decipherments of all great battles. The American topography, Keegan argues, presented a
battle space of complexity and challenges virtually unmatched before or since. Out of a succession of mythic but chaotic engagements, he weaves an irresistible narrative illumina
ted with comparisons to the Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and other conflicts.

The American Civil War is sure to be hailed as a definitive account of its eternally fascinating subject.