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Series Information: Routledge Who's Who
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 the
Gulf War. It provides: * detailed biographies of the most
interesting and important figures in military history from about
1450 to the present day * a series of maps showing the main
theatres of war * a glossary of common words and phrases * an
accessible and user-friendly A-Z layout The Routledge Who's Who in
Military History will be a unique and invaluable source of
information for the student and general reader alike.
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, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle
descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the
definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous
reassessment of three battles representative of three different
time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat
meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow
cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or
the steel rain of the Somme.
"The best military historian of our generation." -Tom Clancy
The greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless
account of America's most bloody, wrenching, and eternally
fascinating war.
In this long-awaited history, 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 evolution of its strategic logic influenced
the course of the war. Above all, "The American Civil War" gives an
intriguing account of how the scope of the conflict combined with
American geography to present a uniquely complex and challenging
battle space. Irresistibly written and incisive in its analysis,
this is an indispensable account of America's greatest
conflict.
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 our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation.
Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent.
But the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. With unequalled authority and insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend--Verdun, the Somme and Gallipoli among them--and sheds new light on the strategies and tactics employed, particularly the contributions of geography and technology. No less central to Keegan's account is the human aspect. He acquaints us with the thoughts of the intriguing personalities who oversaw the tragically unnecessary catastrophe--from heads of state like Russia's hapless tsar, Nicholas II, to renowned warmakers such as Haig, Hindenburg and Joffre. But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded--"the anonymous millions, indistinguishably drab, undifferentially deprived of any scrap of the glories that by tradition made the life of the man-at-arms tolerable."
By the end of the war, three great empires--the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman--had collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation ex-tended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history.
With 24 pages of photographs, 2 endpaper maps, and 15 maps in text
Who's Who in Military History looks at those people who have shaped the course of war. Broad in geographical and chronological scope, it concentrates on all the major periods and conflicts in history, from 1453 up to the present day. It provides: * detailed biographies of the most interesting and important figures in military history * a series of maps showing the main theatres of war * a glossary of common words and phrases * a unique and valuable source of information for both the student and the general reader.
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 engagements, Keegan brilliantly shows how each of the
armies reflected its own nation's values and traditions. In a new
introduction written especially to commemorate the 50th anniversary
of D-Day, he contemplates the ways the events at the battle of
Normandy still reverberate today.
"The best military historian of our generation." -Tom
Clancy
"John Keegan writes about war better than almost anyone in our
century." -The Washington Post Book World
"Very dramatic... Very well done... a book which conjures romance
from some very hard fighting." -A. J. P. Taylor, The New York
Review of Books
"The story of this vast, complex, and risky amphibious assault,
and the campaign which followed, has been told many times, but
never better than by John Keegan." -The Wall Street Journal
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an
imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at
'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions
of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by
battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and
fight rather than run away. In this stunningly vivid reassessment
of three battles, John Keegan conveys their reality for the
participants, whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the
levelled muskets of Waterloo or the steel rain of the Somme.
The step-by-step decline into war, with Churchill becoming prime minister as "the tocsin was about to sound."
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
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work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
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thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
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. In this masterly and highly individual account of that
struggle, the reader is subjected to the gruelling ordeals
confronted by the combatants - each encounter related from the
point of view of a different nationality. While transcending
conventional military history, it provides an intensely vivid
picture of one of the Second World War's most crucial campaigns.
Told by the grandson of the head of the family, this is the
gripping odyssey of another Frank family from the deceptively good
life of Berlin in the 1920s, through the rise of Hitler and their
flight to apparently safe Holland, the nightmarish ordeal of their
thousand-day-long "submersion" in a small apartment in The Hague,
to the joy and pain of liberation and their final journey to
America, the same route Anne Frank might have taken had she not
been betrayed. Based on personal testaments, records, and family
interviews, the book describes their life behind closed curtains in
constant fear of discovery. In 1945, after many adventures and
appalling vicissitudes, they finally emerged to face the
uncertainties of postwar Holland and the promise of the New World.
Both a history and a memoir, this extensively researched book gives
the first account of the war in Holland, the occupation, and the
resistance (including the Jewish resistance) to be published for
several years. Despite that resistance, and the help of the Dutch
citizens who sheltered their Jewish neighbors, most of Dutch Jewry
was destroyed.
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 grew up in Jersey city, New Jersey.
Young boys always have many childhood adventures in sports and
neighborhood games. John is able to share his life and
relationships with you. His friends and foes come to life, in
particular, his memories of his first close friend, Phyllis. The
story also tells about the neighborhood heroes who were killed
during World War II, and it describes some of the key battles of
the war.
As the story unfolds, we find that young John depended on his
Irish immigrant parents for love and guidance, and they were always
there when he needed them.
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 war affect the individual, combatant or noncombatant? Can there be an end to war? Keegan addresses these questions with a breathtaking knowledge of history and the many other disciplines that have attempted to explain the phenomenon. The themes Keegan concentrates on in this short volume are essential to our understanding of why war remains the single greatest affliction of humanity in the twenty-first century, surpassing famine and disease, its traditional companions.
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