| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade. By A. J. B. Johnston. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xi, 365 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-6009-2.)

A. J. B. Johnston's Endgame 1758, combined with his Life and Religion at Louisbourg, 1713–1758 (1996), constitutes the definitive modern study of the social and military career of France's colonial Cape Breton fortress and town. Johnston's long experience there as a Parks Canada historian gave him constant access to the array of archival material and the welcome opportunity to walk the ground regularly. He escorts the reader through French and British imperial objectives, policy making, and strategic management in both London and Paris. That lets him show the grand and theater strategy that produced the final campaign and siege at the twilight of France's imperial enterprise in North America. Johnston places the reader in both camps through the siege, but spends more time with the defenders than the besiegers.

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