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, Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil. of photos.
Chapter 1. One Englishman’s America - America at a Distance
Chapter 1. One Englishman’s America - Americans at First Hand
Chapter 1. One Englishman’s America - American Friendships
Chapter 1. One Englishman’s America - An American Journey
Chapter 1. One Englishman’s America - America After Twenty Years
Chapter 1. One Englishman’s America - An Evening with the President
Chapter 2. The Forts of New France - French America
Chapter 2. The Forts of New France - Europe, Native America, and the Fur Trade
Chapter 2. The Forts of New France - The Fall of New France
Chapter 3. The Fort at Yorktown - The War in the North
Chapter 3. The Fort at Yorktown - The War in the South
Chapter 4. Fortifying the Confederacy - American Geography and the Civil War
Chapter 4. Fortifying the Confederacy - The Peninsular Campaign
Chapter 5. Forts on the Plains - Emigration and the Great Plains
Chapter 5. Forts on the Plains - The Indians of the Great Plains
Chapter 5. Forts on the Plains - The Army on the Plains
Chapter 5. Forts on the Plains - Custer’s Last Stand