John Keegan
John Keegan
BIOGRAPHY

Sir John Keegan was a British military historian, lecturer, prolific author, and long-time defence correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph. He was knighted in 2000.

 

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Primary Contributions (1)
Normandy Invasion
Normandy Invasion, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. By the end of August 1944…
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Publications (4)
The American Civil War: A Military History
The American Civil War: A Military History (October 2009)
By John Keegan
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 hundred known to us by name. Now Keegan examines these and other...
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Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda (October 2003)
By John Keegan
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 his characteristically wry and perceptive prose, Keegan offers us nothing short of a new history of war through the prism of intelligence. He brings...
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The First World War
The First World War (May 1999)
By John Keegan
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 shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed...
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Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris
Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris (July 1982)
By John Keegan
[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Fred Williams]In burnished, driving prose, John Keegan chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, from D-Day to the liberation of Paris. At the same time, he furthers his exploration of the role which warfare and its institutions play in social life by showing how each of the six armies, while resembling one another in purpose and authority, is a mirror of its own nation's values. Each army is shown at...
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