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'The most brilliant evocation of military experience in our time.' C. P. Snow
Britain's foremost military historian, Sir John Keegan, brilliantly examines the realities of war at ...
John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999.
This major and long-awaited work is the definitive history of the American Civil War by our greatest military historian.
'John Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians-His book is a work of massive sweep-the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written.' Michael ...
'He writes better on war than anyone else in the English-speaking world-A delight.' Sunday Telegraph
A fascinating and highly readable study of this most topical of subjects by the most distinguished contemporary writer of military history.
'An unsurpassed account of the Allied invasion of France from D-Day to the liberation of Paris. As a military historian John Keegan has the qualities of the best commanders, broad strategic grasp combined ...
'The brilliant, vivid pictures of each subject are interspersed with reflections on the relation between society and the use of force. The framework of four masks gives the author the opportunity to display ...
Britain's foremost military historian, Sir John Keegan, brilliantly examines the realities of war at sea.
A major work by our greatest military historian, acclaimed as the definitive history of the First World War, the conflict that shaped the twentieth century.
An outstanding history of the Second World War by one of our most distinguished historians.
A guided tour of the controversies surrounding the history and interpretation of World War 11 from this century's most distinguished military historian.