Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE FRSL (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. ... The First World War ...
The Face of Battle is a 1976 non-fiction book on military history by the English military historian John Keegan.It deals first with the structure of historical writing [clarification needed] about battles, the strengths and weaknesses of the "battle piece," and then with the structure of warfare in three time periods—medieval Europe, the Napoleonic Era, and World War I—by analyzing three ...
Keegan discusses early warfare, the proliferation of Bronze Age warfare and then Iron Age warfare (Greek hoplites and phalanxes, Roman legions and maniples).He also talks about the conquests of the "horse peoples", first under the Assyrians, then the Achaemenids, Parthians and Sassanids; then in the 7th century the Arabs conquer a lot of territory, followed by the Mongols under Genghis Khan ...
The First World War: A Very Short Introduction (2007), by a leading historian excerpt and text search; Hubatsch, Walther. Germany and the Central Powers in the World War, 1914–1918 (1963) Keegan, John (2001). The First World War; An Illustrated History. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0091793920. Keegan, John (2000). The First World War. New ...
In 1976, John Keegan (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) wrote ...the compilers of the British Official History of the First World War have achieved the remarkable feat of writing an exhaustive account of one of the world's greatest tragedies without any display of emotion at all. [20]
The First World War: The War To End All Wars. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-738-7. Smith, Leonard V. (1994). Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War I. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-03304-4. Smith, Leonard V. (1995). "War and 'Politics': The French Army Mutinies of 1917".
The bombardment of Madras was an engagement of the First World War, at Madras (now Chennai), British India. ... Keegan, John (October 2004). Intelligence in War (1 ed ...
Keegan, John (1998). The First World War. London: Hutchinson. ... International Encyclopedia of the First World War. This page was last edited on 7 January 2025, at ...