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Title: Keegan's Book is less a history than a commercial venture
Review: John Keegan has a pretty good reputation as an historian, but in this venture he has put together a hurried and clearly commercial product that does not do him justice. His understanding of the American Indian and how they made war is pitiful. He quotes Lewis & Clark as authority for the fact that the Blackfoot are part of the Sioux tribe, a mistake unlikely to be made by an American expert. He further considers the Sioux to have been the most warlike of the plains tribes, and in that he is just wrong. The Comanche hold that honor for their continued battles with the Spanish and then the Texans over a period of more than a hundred years.
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