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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 of illuminating the war as a whole: Crete, Midway, Falaise, Berlin and Okinawa.

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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 World War II, Keegan reveals a man whose own idea of an English past allowed him to exhort a nation to unprecedented levels of sacrifice.

Trade paperback. A new edition of the classic work of military history, which looks at the direct experience of individuals at the point of maximum danger. Scrupulous reassesses three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. 'The book that changed how military history is written.' Bernard Cornwell, "Daily Express

John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the S...

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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.

John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the S...

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, Hussein. Fr...

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.

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 historians. And i...

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 histori...

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Dieser Klassiker der Militärgeschichte behandelt nicht nur die Strategie und den Verlauf berühmter Schlachten. John Keegan geht es darum, wie sich der einzelne Soldat, der Offizier, die kleine Gruppe und die Masse der Kämpfenden in der tödlichen Konfrontation mit dem Feind verhalten, welche Formen des Kampfes es gibt, wann Mut und Ausdauer und wann das Waffenpotenzial den Ausschlag geben. Keegan beschönigt nicht und klagt nicht an, er lässt di...

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.