BOOK REVIEW: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, by John Keegan*

America’s bloodiest conflictTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WARby John Keegan(London: Hutchinson)Hardback: 416 pagesISBN: 9780091794835Rec. price: AUD$69.95
Reviewed by Michael Daniel
Perhaps no other military conflict, apart from the two world wars, has inspired so many works of literature, film and television as the American Civil War.Lasting almost four years from 1861 to 1865, the conflict resulted in the deaths of approximately 600,000 combatants, from war and disease, and redefined many …

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