Le récit et l'analyse magistrale de la première guerre moderne, par le plus grand historien de la guerre de notre temps. La guerre de Sécession (1861-1865), la plus coûteuse en vies humaines et en pertes matérielles de toute l'histoire des États-Unis, marqua le passage de l'ère napoléonienne du c...
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 trad...
Sa vision de l'Angleterre et de son histoire, l'éloquence incomparable de ses discours, sa pugnacité exemplaire ont permis à Winston Churchill d'élever toute une nation à la grandeur par des sacrifices sans précédent. Dans cette biographie de référence, le grand historien John Keegan brosse en deux ...
Par John Keegan, une synthèse complète, chronologique et thématique de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. L'importance de cette histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, à la fois chronologique et thématique, réside certes dans la narration des faits de guerre, mais plus encore dans la manière dont John...
Loin, comme ses prédécesseurs, de décrire la bataille telle qu'elle est jugée d'en haut, à la manière de l'état-major, Keegan, certainement le plus grand historien de la guerre au monde, la restitue par le bas, telle qu'elle est vécue par les soldats. Ici, trois batailles sont décortiquées, Azinc...
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 formidable exercise in American power aided by the British army. Throughout the war and beyond it, Joh...
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 the reality of it confuses and divides historians even today. In this magisterial history of the firs...
In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Russia and North Africa; the other against Japan in the Far East and Pacific. Each conflict had dis...
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 - Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. The result not only illustrates the dev...
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 ...
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The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet be...
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 Roosevelt have foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbour? Could the Allies have invaded France before 194...
In Battle at Sea, 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 conflicts: Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. He takes us into the very heart of the fi...
This without any doubt is one of the half-dozen best books on warfare to appear in the English language since the end of the Second World War.' Michael Howard, Sunday TimesThe Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of ma...
The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Most studies of generalship have focused on individual character and behaviour. While these are not neglected in this remarkable book, its central argument is that, like warfare itself, gene...
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity far beyond its European epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era. It unleashed both the demons of the twenieth century - pestilence, military destructio...
In this study, the author of "A History of Warfare" goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop an argument about intelligence in war. ...
An eBook short. 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...
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 l...
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Acclaimed military historian John Keegans 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 classic ...
This without any doubt is one of the half-dozen best books on warfare to appear in the English language since the end of the Second World War.' Michael Howard, Sunday TimesThe Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of ma...
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity far beyond its European epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era. It unleashed both the demons of the twenieth century - pestilence, military destructio...