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John Keegan
Discover the days of the Great Depression, World War II and the post-war years through the eyes and ears of a young Irish-American Catholic boy who grew up in Jersey…
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The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan 2018 marks the centenary of the First World War - the war that…
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This book provides a unique reference source, for both the student and general reader, of the salient facts about the lives, careers, and personalities of the great variety of characters…
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Military historian John Keegan illustrates that only when paired with force has military intelligence been an effective tool, as it may one day be in besting al-Qaeda.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
A wide-ranging, forceful, and fascinating analysis of generals - who they are, what they do, and how they affect the world we live in. Other books by the same author…
Military history and geography explain each other in North America as nowhere else in the world. In this book, the author explores their relationship and examines the battles fought over…
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Acclaimed historian John Keegan brings together an amazing array of war writings, largely drawn from the protagonists themselves or firsthand accounts of the battles they describe. Includes descriptions by Caesar…
Who's Who in World War II brings together over 300 of the most important characters from every sphere of responsibility and reflects the truly global nature of World War II.
With the same erudition, discernment, and crisp prose that made his A History of Warfare an international bestseller, Keegan surveys the literature of World War II, identifying the works he…
One of the greatest military historians of our time and the author of acclaimed volumes on ancient and modern warfare–including the bestselling The First World War –distills what he knows…
Traditional Chinese edition of The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
/KEEGAN JOHN The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. Keegan is at once the most readable and…
In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text concentrates on five crucial battles with the aim…
Recreates the military accomplishments and delineates the nationalistic characters of each of the armies of the Normandy invasion.
It’s 1959 in the town of Clearwater, there are no cell phones or laptops, Eisenhower is President and the country is at peace. Or is it? Three seemingly aimless teenagers…
Who’s Who in World War II brings together over 300 of the most important characters from every sphere of responsibility and reflects the truly global nature of World War II.
Concentrating on four key conflicts - Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic - the author takes us into the heart of the fighting, examining the realities of…
‘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…
Acclaimed historian Keegan offers a very human portrait of one of the 20th centurys enduring symbols of heroic defiance. From Churchills youth as a poor student to his leadership during…
The author of the acclaimed The Face of Battle and Intelligence in War brings his extraordinary expertise to bear on perhaps the most controversial war of our time. The Iraq…
Praised as the best military historian of our generation by Tom Clancy, John Keegan now reconstructs his masterful study of World War II with a new Foreword. Maps & photos…
The Allied assault on Normandy was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of fighting before the German forces were beaten and Paris liberated. This account…
A History of Warfare stresses that warmaking, for all its destructiveness, has been an inescapable feature of human culture since organised societies emerged.
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at ‘the point of maximum danger’.
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.
In the definitive account of the Great War, Keegan sheds fascinating light on weaponry and technology; shows the doomed negotiations between the monarchs and ministers of 1914; and takes readers…
The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. In this magisterial history of the first modern war, the distinguished military historian John Keegan unpicks…
This title is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in.
Although he has never fought in a war the author creates a realistic picture of the fears, pressures, and mechanics of fighting a battle, emphasizing three particular campaigns.
While offering original and perceptive insights into psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics, Keegan reveals the war’s hidden shape–a consequence of leadership, the evolution of strategic logic, and, above all, geography.
The greatest politician and statesmen of the 20th century.
John Keegan Casey
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and…
A Wreath of Shamrocks: Ballads, Songs, and Legends is a collection of traditional Irish folk tales, songs, and poems compiled by John Keegan Casey and published in 1867. The book…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Philip John Keegan
This series of essays aims to clarify and enlighten the position of Jesus as the one unifier of all Spiritual Truth and religious beliefs.
John Wilsey
A biography of H Jones - the Falklands War hero whose death in the battle for Darwin and Goose Green was one of the turning points in the whole campaign.
John Keegan,Andrew Wheatcroft
Providing detailed biographies of the most interesting and important figures in military history from 1450 to the present day, this book is a unique and valuable source of information for…
John E Keegan
In the tradition of National
Velvet, the 1944 film starring Mickey
Rooney and a young horse-crazy
girl Elizabeth Taylor, Keegan tells
the story of Dean Hostler, the fender
repair guy…
John Keegan,C. Stevenson
At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people, Fields of Battle spans more…
Winston S. Churchill
The step-by-step decline into war, with Churchill becoming prime minister as the tocsin was about to sound.
Gordon Sanders
Told by the grandson of the head of the family, this is the gripping odyssey of another Frank family from the deceptively good life of Berlin in the 1920s, through…
