John Keegan passes away

[eddie]

The great British author John Keegan has passed away at the age of 78. May he rest in peace.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/eur...gAP/story.html

[Skybird]

Fine military historian. In his branch there are not many of his callibre. Have read him myself.

[Oberon]

Fully agreed with Skybird, his military writing was top notch stuff. RIP.

Some very good work.
RiP

[nikimcbee]

• Barbarossa: Invasion of Russia, 1941 (New York, 1971) ISBN 0-345-02111-8
• Opening Moves - August 1941 (New York: Ballantine, 1971) ISBN 0-345-09798-X
• The Face of Battle (London, 1976) ISBN 0-670-30432-8
• Six Armies in Normandy (1982) ISBN 0-14-005293-3
• Zones Of Conflict: An Atlas Of Future Wars with Andrew Wheatcroft (New York, 1986) ISBN 0-671-60115-6
• Soldiers, A History of Men in Battle with Richard Holmes (New York: Viking Press, 1986) ISBN 0-670-80969-1
• The Mask of Command (London, 1987) ISBN 0-7126-6526-9
• The Price of Admiralty (1988) ISBN 0-09-173771-0
• Who Was Who In World War II (1978) ISBN 0-85368-182-1
• The Illustrated Face of Battle (New York and London: Viking, 1988) ISBN 0-670-82703-7
• The Second World War (Viking Press, 1990) ISBN 0-670-82359-7
• A History of Warfare (London, 1993) ISBN 0-679-73082-6
• The Battle for History: Refighting World War Two (Vintage Canada, 1995) ISBN 0-679-76743-6
• Warpaths (Pimlico, 1996) ISBN 1-84413-750-3
• Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America (1997) ISBN 0-679-74664-1
• War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998 (London: Pimlico, 1999) ISBN 0-375-70520-1
• The Book of War (ed.) (Viking Press, 1999) ISBN 0-670-88804-4
• The First World War (London: Hutchinson, 1998) ISBN 0-09-180178-8; (New York: Knopf, 1999) ISBN 0-375-40052-4
• Winston Churchill (2002) ISBN 0-670-03079-1
• Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda (2003) ISBN 0-375-40053-2
• The Iraq War (2004) ISBN 0-09-180018-8
• Atlas of World War II (ed.) (London: Collins, 2006) ISBN 0-00-721465-0 (an update of the 1989 Times Atlas)
• The American Civil War (London, Hutchinson, 2009) ISBN 978-0-09-179483-5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keegan

PBS a looooooooong time ago did a show about his book "Face of Battle." Great show/book.

[nikimcbee]

oops, it's called "Soldiers".
oohh, look what I found:


I still have this on video.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

oops, it's called "Soldiers".
oohh, look what I found:


I still have this on video.

Good link Nik, that's going into Faves.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Good link Nik, that's going into Faves.

It's a great series. They need to update the "Tanker" episode for the Gulf War (91).

Here's the sapper episode:

[nikimcbee]

God, I love google:
Here's the series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier..._Men_in_Battle

http://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-A-his.../dp/1568521103