John Keegan, Author Vintage Books USA $15.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-679-74664-5
The author of A History of Warfare examines 400 years of warfare on American soil. (June)
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John Keegan, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (16p) ISBN 978-0-679-42413-0
Readers can always count on Keegan (A History of Warfare) to bring a fresh perspective to the art of military history. Here, in an unusually intimate work that fails to persuade wholly, he emphasizes the influence of geography on the military...
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John Keegan, Author Viking Books $21.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-81416-9
The author of The Mask of Command here describes and analyzes four landmark naval engagements, each featuring a different type of ship. The engagements: the 1805 British victory over the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar; the WW I battle of...
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John Keegan, Author Viking Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-45988-9
By the author of The Face of Battle, this is a study of the transformation of military leadership in the context of heroism in its broadest sense. Keegan uses as examples four commanders whose attitudes, styles and military philosophies differed...
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John Keegan, Author Viking Books $34.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-670-88804-7
Keegan (the bestselling The First World War) stands out among contemporary writers of military history for the literary sensibility he brings to the subject. In his introduction to this anthology, he writes that he organized his selections around...
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John Keegan, Author Knopf Publishing Group $32.5 (432p) ISBN 978-0-394-58801-8
In his sweeping new study, Keegan ( The Face of Battle ) examines the origins and nature of warfare, the ethos of the primitive and modern warrior and the development of weapons and defenses from the battle of Megiddo (1469 B.C.) into the nuclear...
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John Keegan, Author Penguin Books $20.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-14-011341-9
``This account of WW II, though controversial, is rich in fresh perception, interpretation and opinion. In addition to penning a fast-paced campaign chronicle, Keegan makes a convincing case for the prime motivations of Allied and Axis leaders,...
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John Keegan, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (128p) ISBN 978-0-679-76743-5
While there are some astute observations about the nature of historical writing here, The Battle for History is essentially a lengthy bibliography. In sections discussing general histories and biographies as well as books on campaigns, military...
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John Keegan, Author Penguin Books $18 (353p) ISBN 978-0-14-009650-7
The author here analyzes four landmark naval engagements: the 1805 British victory at Trafalgar; the WW I battle of Jutland; the WW II battles of Midway and the Atlantic. ``Keegan writes as authoritatively as his admirers have come to expect,''...
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John Keegan, Author Penguin Books $16 (368p) ISBN 978-0-14-011406-5
Four chapters on ``heroic'' military leadership (in the broadest sense of the word)Alexander the Great, Wellington, U.S. Grant and Hitlerlead up to what PW called a ``masterful closing argument warning that in the nuclear age heroic leadership of...
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John Keegan, Author Knopf/Everyman's Library $35 (496p) ISBN 978-0-375-40052-0
In a riveting narrative that puts diaries, letters and action reports to good use, British military historian Keegan (The Face of Battle, etc.) delivers a stunningly vivid history of the Great War. He is equally at ease--and equally generous and...
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John Keegan, Author . Knopf $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4199-2
Ubiquitous military historian Keegan (Intelligence in War
) offers a reportage-based account of a "mysterious war." Keegan addresses the war's anomalies—200,000 soldiers took a country of almost 30 million in three weeks; the war
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John Keegan, Author . Knopf $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-375-40053-7
According to Keegan (The First World War
), there is a good reason why "military intelligence" is so often described as an oxymoron: inflicting and enduring destruction often has no room for reflection, just retaliation. But retaliation...
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John Keegan, Author . Lipper/Viking $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-03079-8
The Old Testament and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
were the most important influences on one of the 20th century's great wartime leaders. These books essentially created the man, argues renowned military historian Keegan (The First...
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John Keegan, Author . Knopf $50 (456p) ISBN 978-0-375-41259-2
The text of this work is essentially a stripped-down version of Keegan's 1999 The First World War, with the text complemented by superb visuals. Keegan has selected almost 500 photographs, posters, drawings and maps, a cross-section of material...
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John Keegan, Author, Richard Holmes, Author, John Kegan, Author Viking Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80969-1
Conceived as a companion to the BBC television series of the same name, Soldiers stands on its own as an illuminating and thought-provoking study of war as soldiers have experienced it through history. The authors organize their subject into the...
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John Keegan, Author, LuAnn Walther, Editor . Vintage $10 (112p) ISBN 978-0-375-70520-5
Keegan, bestselling historian of the First and Second World Wars, synthesizes his views on war and peace in this series of five lectures given in 1998 and now published as a set of essays. Drawing on a lifetime of study and writing, Keegan ranges...
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John Keegan, Author, Alan J. P. Taylor, Author, A. J. P. Taylor, Author Viking Books $29.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-670-82359-8
This account of WW II, though controversial, is rich in fresh perception, interpretation and opinion. In addition to penning a fast-paced campaign chronicle, Keegan ( The Mask of Command ) makes a convincing case for the prime motivations of Allied...
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John Keegan, Author . Knopf $30 (396p) ISBN 978-0-307-26343-8
American scholars tend to write the Civil War as a great national epic, but Keegan (The First World War
), an Englishman with a matchless knowledge of comparative military history, approaches it as a choice specimen with fascinating oddities. His...
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