Book description
In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical
and the human impact of the greatest war of all time. He focuses on five
crucial battles and offers new insights into the distinctive methods and
motivations of modern warfare. In knowledgable, perceptive analysis of
the airborne battle of Crete, the carrier battle of Midway, the tank
battle of Falaise, the city battle of Berlin, and the amphibious battle
of Okinawa, Keegan illuminates the strategic dilemmas faced by the
leaders and the consequences of their decisions on the fighting men and
the course of the war as a whole. 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.
