John Keegan

Broschiertes Buch

The Face Of Battle

A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme

Beschreibung

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'.

Autor

John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781847922977
• ISBN-10: 184792297X
• Artikelnr.: 40050387