Book description
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, John Keegan's analysis proved more accurate than any
other commentator's, and now he brings his unrivalled knowledge of
military history to bear on the war, its conduct and consequences.
Written with special access to new sources of information, this book is
the most authoritative and challenging account of a war which could both
set the pattern for military conflicts in the 21st century and
significantly affect the world political order. 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.
