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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...
The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero Wellington, the unheroic Ulysses S. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler -...
In Battle at Sea, Sir John Keegan applies to maritime warfare the technique that he put to such brilliant effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle. He concentrates on four key conflicts: Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. He...
John Keegan's new book applies to maritime warfare the technique he put to such dazzling effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle. His analysis concentrates on four key battles - Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic.The result not...
The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.John Keegan’s masterpiece is a work of breath-taking scope that not only chronicles the history of warfare, but unearths lessons on the nature of humanity. Stretching across centuries and...
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 Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle,...
The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan2018 marks the centenary of the First World War – the war that created the modern world. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a...
In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all time. He focuses on five crucial battles and offers new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare.In knowledgable,...
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...
Although 50 years have passed since the end of World War II, there has as yet been no definitive history of that conflict. Existing histories have raised as many questions as they answer: Did Roosevelt have foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbour? Could the Allies...
The Iraq War remains highly controversial, but in all the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction, the use and misuse of intelligence, it remains an awesome military and political event and a formidable exercise in American power aided by the British army....
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 this knowledge have? In this magisterial new study, the author...
Le récit et l'analyse magistrale de la première guerre moderne, par le plus grand historien de la guerre de notre temps. Occultée par la vision littéraire antagoniste de La Case de l'oncle Tom et d'Autant en emporte le vent, la guerre de Sécession demeure méconnue....
Le récit et l'analyse magistrale de la première guerre moderne, par le plus grand historien de la guerre de notre temps.La guerre de Sécession (1861-1865), la plus coûteuse en vies humaines et en pertes matérielles de toute l'histoire des États-Unis, marqua le passage...
Comment et pourquoi, de la préhistoire à nos jours, les hommes se sont fait la guerre.La guerre est-elle intrinsèquement liée à la culture humaine ? La réponse de John Keegan est sans appel : toutes les civilisations doivent leurs origines à la guerre. Et si l'on peut...
Sa vision de l’Angleterre et de son histoire, l’éloquence incomparable de ses discours, sa pugnacité exemplaire ont permis à Winston Churchill d’élever toute une nation à la grandeur par des sacrifices sans précédent. Dans cette biographie de référence, le grand...
Pour la première fois, les trois textes fondateurs du plus illustre historien de la guerre, John Keegan, sont rassemblés.L'Art du commandement, Histoire de la guerre et Anatomie de la bataille : trois textes fondateurs devenus des classiques incontournables pour tous...
L'importance de cette histoire, à la fois chronologique et thématique, réside certes dans la narration des faits de guerre, mais plus encore dans la manière dont John Keegan -historien britannique de grande notoriété- explique la préparation et l'évolution du conflit à...
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