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The American Civil War by John Keegan
Category: Military
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 mo ...Show more
The American Civil War - A Military History by John Keegan
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Civil War Library
"This magisterial history of the first modern war is on the scale of John Keegan's classics, A History of Warfare and The First World War. In his sweeping, unputdownable narrative he highlights geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict. John Keegan writes- The geography of t ...Show more
The Face of Battle : A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
Category: Military
The Face of Battle: Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
Category: Military
"The 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 ...Show more
The First World War: Illustrated by John Keegan
Category: Military
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity far beyond its European epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era. It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - pestilence, military destruction a ...Show more
The Second World War by John Keegan
Category: History
Praised as "the best military historian of our generation" by Tom Clancy, John Keegan reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new foreword Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial battles and offering new insights into the distinctive metho ...Show more
The Western Way of War - Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson; John Keegan (Introduction by)
Category: Military
Hanson thinks the ancient Greeks deliberately made warfare physically and psychologically intolerable so that no one could stand it for long and wars could be fought and settled in a single afternoon.
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