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In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all time. He focuses on five crucia...
The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan 2018 marks the centenary of the First Wo...
The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the e...
A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum ...
Alexander the Great, Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant, Hitler, and the Nature of Lea dership
John Keeganโs brilliant look at the meaning of leadership In The Mask of Command, John Keegan asks us to consider questions that are seldom asked: W...
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A Visual Encyclopedia
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 ...
John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War. Ch...
A Study of Generalship
The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Through portraits of four generals - arche...
In the seventeenth century the art of war underwent a very quiet revolution. Although the weapons changed from the pike to the socket bayonet and the ...
The greatest politician and statesmen of the twentieth century by Britain's leading military historian. Was Churchill as a great a wartime leader as h...
John Keegan, widely considered the greatest military historian of our time and the author of acclaimed volumes on ancient and modern warfare--includin...
Refighting World War Two
Although 50 years have passed since the end of World War II, there has as yet been no definitive history of that conflict. Existing histories have rai...
A Boy's Tale
Discover the days of the Great Depression, World War II and the post-war years through the eyes and ears of a young Irish-American Catholic boy who gr...
How could troops who fought with such almost superhuman bravery, behave so cruelly and callously towards those who fell into their hands? They acted w...
The Wars for North America
At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike peop...
A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
A splendid new edition of a modern classic, illustrated with paintings, prints, engravings, battle plans, and photographs, and featuring a new introdu...
From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6th-August 25th, 1944
Tells the story of the Allied invasion of Normandy and shows how each of the armies mirrored its own nation's values....
A History of Men in Battle
Each type of soldier is described and the origin of their specializations outlined....
The Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in America's history, comprising 149 general engagements of importance and 2200 skirmishes. Trace the course ...
An Atlas of Future Wars
Travels of a Military Historian in North America
Military history and geography explain each other in North America as nowhere else in the world. Award-winning historian John Keegan explores their re...
A stunning visual account of the greatest conflict in world history. The Second World War is the largest event in the history of mankind. No populated...
Re-fighting World War Two
World War II killed 50 million people, destroyed swathes of Europe's cultural heritage, devasted its economy, depraved its politics and devalues the v...
Our fascination with the drama of war at sea is as strong today as it was in the heyday of the sailing ship.This book, written by one of the world's f...
From Man-of-War to Submarine
In Battle at Sea, Sir John Keegan applies to maritime warfare the technique that he put to such brilliant effect in his classic of war on land, The Fa...
Leading historian of the war in the Far East, P.H. Willmott, provides a concise, readable account of the conflict. The book is fully illustrated throu...
"The Iraq War is important to our understanding of a conflict whose full ramifications are as yet unknown."--BOOK JACKET....
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...
The Evolution of Naval Warfare
The author illuminates naval history, offering a brilliant dissection of four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: the Ba...
Adrian Goldsworthy reveals why Rome developed the most professional fighting force of the ancient world and what it was like to be a soldier in the le...
Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
'No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence, ' wrote Marlborough, and from the earliest times commanders have sought kno...
A Life
One of the greatest historians writing today gives us a defining portrait of the incomparable Winston Churchill In his landmark biography of Winston C...
A Battlefield History
An estimated one-third of all combat actions in the American Revolution took place in South Carolina. From the partisan clashes of the backcountry's w...
War at Sea from Man of War to Submarine
John Keegan's new book applies to maritime warfare the technique he put to such dazzling effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle. His...
And Their Invention of Western Military Culture
The Ancient Greeks--who believed that war is the most important thing humans do--bequeathed to the West an incomparable military legacy that still inf...
Illustrates life on the home front, important battles, war from the perspective of generals and soldiers, the collapse of empires, and glimpses of Wor...