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The greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America's most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war. In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the American Civil War. Illuminated by Keegan's knowledge of military history he provides a fascinating look at how command and the slow e...

Quali sono le qualità di un generale? Quale è il modo più efficiente di comandare? Come è cambiato nei secoli il ruolo del generale? Uno dei massimi storici militari racconta quattro condottieri che hanno incarnato modi diversi di esercitare il comando: Alessandro Magno, sempre in prima fila nei combattimenti, Adolf Hitler, impegnato a mitizzare la propria figura attraverso la propaganda, il duca di Wellington, che controllava l'andamento dell...

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, the Duke of Wellington, Ernest Hemingway, and others.

Although fifty 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 President Roosevelt have foreknowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Might bombing the Auschwitz railroad have impeded the course of the Holocaust? Now one of our most esteemed military historians assesses the literature that has emerged from...

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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 magisterial history of the first modern war, the distinguished military historian John Keegan unpicks the geography, leadership and strategic logic of the war and takes us to the...

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.

Geography and military history have come to explain each other in North America as they do nowhere else in the world. The book ends with the final twist in the story of European warfare in North America, as American and Canadian forces arrive to save Britain and liberate France in the Second World War.

John Keegan, widely considered the greatest military historian of our time and the author of acclaimed volumes on ancient and modern warfare--including, most recently, The First World War, " a national bestseller--distills what he knows about the why's and how's of armed conflict into a series of brilliantly concise essays. Is war a natural condition of humankind? What are the origins of war? Is the modern state dependent on warfare? How does ...

Acclaimed military historian John Keegan's investigation into World War II and the Normandy Invasion The armies of six nations met on the battlefields of Normandy in what was to be the greatest Allied achievement of World War II. With dramatic, driving power, John Keegan describes the massed armies-American, Canadian, English, French, German, and Polish-at successive stages of the invasion. As he details the strategies of the military engagem...

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Throughout the war and beyond it, John Keegan's analysis proved more accurate than any other commentator's, and now he brings his unrivaled knowledge of military history to bear on the war, its conduct and consequences.

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The highest praise greeted the hardcover publication of this engrossing, brilliant book - THE definitive story of the Great War, the war that created the modern world, unleashing the terrors of mechanized warfare and mass death, and establishing the political fault lines that imperil European stability to this day. Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the doomed diplomatic efforts to avert the catastrophe, he probes the haunting question of ho...

Throughout the war and beyond it, John Keegan's analysis proved more accurate than any other commentator's, and now he brings his unrivaled knowledge of military history to bear on the war, its conduct and consequences.

The Routledge Who's Who in Military History looks at those men and women who have shaped the course of war. It concentrates on all those periods about which the reader is likely to want information - the eighteenth-century wars in Europe, the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the major conflicts of the nineteenth-century. There is full coverage of the First and Second World Wars, and the many post-war struggles up to and including t...

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 than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil. of photos.

Der erste moderne KriegIm Bürgerkrieg zwischen Nord- und Südstaaten(1861-1865) starben über 700 000 Soldaten - mehrals in allen anderen Kriegen zusammen, die die USA seitdem geführt haben. John Keegan zeichnet das ebenso faszinierende wie beklemmende Bild dieses ersten modernen Krieges: vom zähen Kampf um die Sklaverei über die legendären Schlachten bis hin zur totalen Niederlage des Südens - und dem Ende einer ganzen Lebensweise.Dabei spürt e...