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  | | Intelligence in War The value--and limitations--of what the military can learn about the enemy by John Keegan, Richard Holmes Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70046-0, ISBN: 0-375-70046-3 "John Keegan, whose many books, including classic histories of the two world wars, have confirmed him as the premier miltary historian of our time, here presents a masterly look at the value and limitations of intelligence in the conduct of war.Intelligence gathering is an immensely complicated and vulnerable endeavor. And it often fails. Until the invention of the telegraph and radio, information often traveled no faster than a horse co ..." |
 | | The Mask of Command(Updated) Alexander the Great, Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant, Hitler, and the Nature of Lea dership by John Keegan Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1988 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-011406-5, ISBN: 0-14-011406-8 "John Keegan’s brilliant look at the meaning of leadership In The Mask of Command, John Keegan asks us to consider questions that are seldom asked: What is the definition of leadership? What makes a great military leader? Why is it that men, indeed sometimes entire nations, follow a single leader, often to victory, but with equal dedication also to defeat? Dozens of names come to mind...Napoleon, Lee, Charlemagne, Hannibal, Castro, ..." |
 | | The First World War by Sir John Keegan Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70045-3, ISBN: 0-375-70045-5 "The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing sha ..." |
 | | The Price of Admiralty The Evolution of Naval Warfare from Trafalgar to Midway by Sir John Keegan Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1990 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-009650-7, ISBN: 0-14-009650-7 "Military historian John Keegan’s gripping history of naval warfare’s evolution. In The Price of Admirality, leading military historian John Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic. “The best ..." |
 | | The Second World War(Reprint) by Sir John Keegan, Michael K. Keegan Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2005 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303573-2, ISBN: 0-14-303573-8 "John Keegan’s landmark military history of World War II Praised as “the best military historian of our generation” by Tom Clancy, John Keegan here reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new foreword. Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial battles and offering new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare. In eloquent, perceptive analys ..." |
 | | The American Civil War(Reprint) A Military History (Vintage Civil War Library) by Sir John Keegan Paperback, 396 Pages, Published 2010 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27493-9, ISBN: 0-307-27493-4 "The greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America’s most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war.In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the American Civil War. Illuminated by Keegan’s knowledge of military history he provides a fascinating look at how command and the s ..." |
 | | The Face of Battle(Reprint) A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme by John Keegan Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1983 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-004897-1, ISBN: 0-14-004897-9 "Master military historian John Keegan’s groundbreaking analysis of combat and warfareThe 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 hist ..." |
 | | A History of Warfare(1st Edition) by Sir John Keegan Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1994 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73082-8, ISBN: 0-679-73082-6 "The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the end of the cold war in the twentieth century, Keegan shows how armed conflict has been a primary preoccupation throughout the history of civilization and how deeply rooted its practice has become in our cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military ..." |
 | | Winston Churchill(1st Edition) (Penguin Lives Biographies) by John Keegan Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-03079-8, ISBN: 0-670-03079-1 "He was something of a bully, something of a blowhard, without friends and always in search of a sympathetic audience for his monologues. Yet, writes John Keegan in this slender but thorough portrait, Winston Churchill was unquestionably the right man for the time. Few biographers are better equipped than Keegan, the eminent military historian, to write of Churchill as a wartime leader. Indeed, Keegan suggests, Churchill was never mor ..." |
 | | The Second World War(Reprint) by John Keegan Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 1990 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-011341-9, ISBN: 0-14-011341-X "The best one-volume treatment available, The Second World War by John Keegan is an outstanding synthesis of an enormous amount of material on "the largest single event in human history." The book proceeds chronologically through the war, but chapters appearing at appropriate moments focus on particular themes, such as war production, occupation, bombing, resistance, and espionage. Keegan's ability to translate the war's grand strategies ..." |
 | | The American Civil War(Reprint) by John Keegan Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2007 by Hutchinson Import ISBN-13: 978-0-09-179483-5, ISBN: 0-09-179483-8 "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 geography of the battlefield is to me a living reality. I know the appearance of the battlefields, I know the distances between them, I know the ce ..." |
 | | Who's Who in Military History From 1453 to the Present Day by John Keegan, Andrew Wheatcroft Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 1991 by Promotional Reprint Co. Import ISBN-13: 978-1-85648-004-8, ISBN: 1-85648-004-6 "Whos Who in Military History l looks at those people who have shaped the course of war. Broad in geographical and chronological scope, it concentrates on all the major periods and conflicts in history, from 1453 up to and including the Persian Gulf War. It provides: • detailed biographies of the most interesting and important figures in military history • a series of maps showing the main theatres of war • a glossary of common words and ..." |
 | | Who Was Who in World War II.(1st Edition) by John Keegan, Edith Rickert, Rh Value Publishing, Crescent Books Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1984 by Crescent Books ISBN-13: 978-0-517-43458-1, ISBN: 0-517-43458-X |
 | | The First World War by John Keegan Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2014 by The Bodley Head Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84792-298-4, ISBN: 1-84792-298-8 "Despite the avalanche of books written about the First World War in recent years, there have been comparatively few books that have concentrated on delivering the big picture--a comprehensive account of the war and its campaigns from start to finish--and this book fills the gap superbly. As readers familiar with John Keegan's previous books, such as the The Face Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, and The Second World War, will know, Keegan ..." |
 | | A Nation in Arms The British Army in the First World War by Keith Simpson, John Keegan, Ian F. Beckett Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Pen And Sword ISBN-13: 978-1-78346-183-7, ISBN: 1-78346-183-7 "The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British army rapidly expanded into a national force of over five million. A Nation in Arms brings together original research into the impact of the war on the army as an institution, gives a revealing account of those who served in it and offers fascinating insights into its social history during ..." |
 | | The Face Of Battle(2nd Edition) A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2014 by Bodley Head International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-84792-297-7, ISBN: 1-84792-297-X ""The most brilliant evocation of military experience in our time." --C. P. Snow #160;#160;#160;#160;#160;The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physicial conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away.# ..." |
 | | The Face of Battle(Unabridged) by John Keegan, Simon Vance Cd, Published 2012 by Blackstone Audio, Inc. Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4551-5422-7, ISBN: 1-4551-5422-9 "[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Robert Whitfield, aka Simon Vance] In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it--his fears, his wounds and their tre ..." |
 | | The American Civil War(1st Edition) A Military History by John Keegan Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2009 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26343-8, ISBN: 0-307-26343-6 "For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundr ..." |
 | | Winston Churchill(Reprint) A Life (Penguin Lives) by John Keegan, Winston-Churchill Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311264-8, ISBN: 0-14-311264-3 "He was something of a bully, something of a blowhard, without friends and always in search of a sympathetic audience for his monologues. Yet, writes John Keegan in this slender but thorough portrait, Winston Churchill was unquestionably the right man for the time. Few biographers are better equipped than Keegan, the eminent military historian, to write of Churchill as a wartime leader. Indeed, Keegan suggests, Churchill was never mor ..." |
 | | Collins Atlas of World War II(1st Edition) by John Keegan Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-089077-3, ISBN: 0-06-089077-0 "A stunning visual account of the greatest conflict in world history.The Second World War is the largest event in the history of mankind. No populated continent was untouched by its operations, and the political structure of the postwar world has been largely determined by its outcome. The global nature of the war, and the ambitions of the belligerents, meant that it was fought on a scale that, even today, confounds the imagination. It w ..." |
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