Autor: John Keegan

Mit über 700 000 gefallenen Soldaten war der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg blutiger und verlustreicher als alle Kriege zusammen, die die USA seither geführt haben. Und was seine Brutalität und Totalität …

Keine militärische Auseinandersetzung hat das 20. Jahrhundert so geprägt wie der Zweite Weltkrieg. Welche Ziele verfolgten die einzelnen Kriegsparteien? Wie kam es dazu, dass sich der Krieg über die …

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First Published in 2004. World War II, unlike World War I, was truly a global conflict, fought in every one of the five continents, from the Caribbean to the South China Sea, from New Guinea to the N …

First Published in 2004. World War II, unlike World War I, was truly a global conflict, fought in every one of the five continents, from the Caribbean to the South China Sea, from New Guinea to the N …

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 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 – …

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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.Churchill’s reputation as prime minister during the …

The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan2018 marks the centenary of the First World War the war that created the modern world. It …

From the earliest times, commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. But how much effect, in the ‚real time‘ of a battle or a campaig …

The Iraq War remains highly controversial, but in all the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction, the use and misuse of intelligence, it remains an awesome military and political event and a f …

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 raised as many questions as they answer: Did Rooseve …

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 analysis concentrates on four key battles – Traf …

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 Face of Battle. He concentrates on four key conflic …

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 …

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 crucial battles and offers new insights into the distin …

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 unearth …

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 f …

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 liberat …

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 – archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero Welling …

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Con su habitual perspicacia sobre el complicado mundo bélico y su gran capacidad de narrador, Keegan teje un relato lleno de ritmo sobre los medios que han empleado los grandes estrategas de la histo …

Publicado originalmente en 1976 y actualizado en 2004, este es el libro que consagró a John Keegan como el mejor historiador militar de su generación. Un análisis de tres batallas emblemáticas del ar …

‚No estaba yo destinado a ser guerrero‘, se lamenta Keegan. Sin embargo la fascinación por las historias de los veteranos fue la que le llevó a convertirse en uno de los principales expertos mundiale …

Desde los tiempos de Alejandro Magno, hay una pregunta que obsesiona al líder militar: ¿dónde he de estar en la batalla? ¿En primera línea? ¿Un poco hacia la retaguardia, para dirigir mejor a las tro …

Magistral historia de la guerra moderna, esta obra viene a cubrir el vacío que existe en la bibliografía en español sobre la Guerra de Secesión americana. Una perspectiva internacional, desde la visi …

Europe went to war in 1914 tot he sound of brass bands and cheering crowds; in every country, civilians and soldiers alike believed that the war would be won by Christmas time. By the time Christmas …

A history of Germany in World War I as told by the soldiers who fought the battles and the civilians grappling with a decline in quality of life. Europe went to war in 1914 to the sound of brass band …

It’s 1959 in the town of Clearwater, there are no cell phones or laptops, Eisenhower is President and the country is at peace. Or is it? Three seemingly aimless teenagers, Wellesley Baker, wise guy T …

An assessment of critical battles on the southern front that led to American independence An estimated one-third of all combat actions in the American Revolution took place in South Carolina. From th …

‚A remarkable book – a worthy tribute both to the man John Wilsey calls "an unusual hero" and to the ethos of the British Army in which he lived and died.‘ John Keegan in his Foreword This …

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