John Keegan: 23 books

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped...

Acclaimed military historian John Keegan’s anthology of war writing from 25 centuries of battle In The Book of War, John Keegan marshals a formidable host of war writings to chronicle the evolution of Western warfare through the voice of the most eloquent participants—from Thucydides’...

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...

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...

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 ceux qui veulent comprendre...

Master military historian John Keegan’s groundbreaking analysis of combat and warfare 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,...

A masterly look at the value and limitations of intelligence in the conduct of war from the premier military historian of our time, John Keegan. Intelligence gathering is an immensely complicated and vulnerable endeavor. And it often fails. Until the invention of the telegraph and radio, information...

From the dean of modern military historians, John Keegan: a key selection from his masterpiece, The First World War. The road to World War I, from the death of the archduke to the first salvos of battle, an incredibly thorough and straightforward account of how a supposedly rational liberal Europe...

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 différents niveaux:...

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. Elle fut pourtant un...

One of the greatest historians writing today gives us a defining portrait of the incomparable Winston Churchill In his landmark biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian John Keegan offers a very human portrait of one of the twentieth century's enduring symbols of heroic defiance....

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,...

The 2003 Iraq war remains among the most mysterious armed conflicts of modernity. In The Iraq War*,* John Keegan offers a sharp and lucid appraisal of the military campaign, explaining just how the coalition forces defeated an Iraqi army twice its size and addressing such questions as whether Saddam...

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 distinguer plusieurs...