John Keegan
Title: The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
Author: John Keegan
Book Description:
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the “point of maximum danger.” Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. […]
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Title: The Second World War
Author: John Keegan
Book Description:
This book approaches the war from a thematic and periodic standpoint. The course of the war is divided into six passages and attached to each is an analytical narrative of a battle, which exemplifies a mode of warfare special to this war, such as city sieges, an air battle, an airborne operation, an aircraft carrier […]
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Title: Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
Author: John Keegan
Book Description:
In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence. In […]
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