Book description
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 conflicts: Trafalgar, Jutland,
Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. He takes us into the very heart
of the fighting while providing a remarkable panoramic view of naval
warfare through the centuries. Sir John Keegan, who was knighted in
the Millennium Honours List, was the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph
and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998,
he authored many bestselling books including The Face of Battle
, The Mask of Command
, The Second World War
, A History of Warfare
(awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), The First World War
, Intelligence in War, The American Civil War
and The Iraq War
. John Keegan died in 2012.
