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A History of Warfare by John Keegan
Category: Popular History
A History of Warfare stresses that warmaking, for all its destructiveness, has been an inescapable feature of human culture since organised societies emerged. It also recognises, however, that man has consistently sought to limit the effects of his own capacity for violence and that now, in the nuclear ...Show more
Churchill by Sir John Keegan
Category: Fiction | Series: Lives Ser.
The greatest politician and statesmen of the 20th century - by Britain's leading military historian.Was Churchill as a great a wartime leader as he has hitherto been made out? John Keegan discusses the view of the soldiers such as Alanbrooke, his wartime Chief of Staff, and considers Churchill the polit ...Show more
Churchill by Sir John Keegan
Category: Biography Memoir
This biography questions whether Churchill deserves his reputation as a great wartime leader. Keegan discusses the views of his soldiers and considers Churchill, the politician. Churchill's distant relationship with his parents is described, as is the ambitious streak which led him into the army. Har ...Show more
Churchill's Generals by John Keegan
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War.Churchill's reputation as prime minister during the Second World War fluctuated according to the successes and failures of his generals. Most of them were ho ...Show more
Intelligence in War - Knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by John Keegan
Category: History
'No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence', wrote Marlborough, and from the earliest times commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. But how much effect, in the 'real time' of a battle or a campaign, can ...Show more
Mask of Command by John Keegan
Category: WWI & WWII | Series: Pimlico Military Classics Ser.
"The Mask of Command is about generals- who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Most studies of generalship have focused on individual character and behaviour. While these are not neglected in this remarkable book, its central argument is that, like warfare itself, generalsh ...Show more
Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan
Category: WWI & WWII
The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated. In this masterly and highly individual account of that struggle, the reader is subjected to the gruel ...Show more
THE IRAQ WAR by John Keegan
Category: History
The 2003 Iraq war remains among the most mysterious armed conflicts of modernity. In The Iraq War, John Keegan offers a sharp and lucid appraisal of the military campaign, explaining just how the coalition forces defeated an Iraqi army twice its size and addressing such questions as whether Saddam Husse ...Show more
The American Civil War by John Keegan
Category: History
The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but the reality of it confuses and divides historians even today. In this magisterial history of the first mo ...Show more
The American Civil War by John Keegan
Category: Military
This magisterial history of the first modern war is on the scale of John Keegan's classics, "A History of Warfare" and "The First World War". In his sweeping, unputdownable narrative he highlights the geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict. John Keegan writes: 'The geogra ...Show more