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A British view of our Civil War

Author John Keegan expertly analyzes the actions of General Ulysses S. Grant in his book on the Civil War. Author John Keegan expertly analyzes the actions of General Ulysses S. Grant in his book on the Civil War. (Associated Press)
By Michael Kenney
Globe Correspondent / April 10, 2010

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When John Keegan, the noted British military historian, came through Boston on a book tour for “Fields of Battle,’’ his 1995 account of how geography determined the waging of war in North America, he paid a visit to Bunker Hill, the site of one of the most famous confrontations of the Revolutionary War. (Full article: 663 words)

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