The Second World War
New York: Penguin Books, 1990. Sixth printing (stated). Trade paperback. Format is approximately 7 inches by 9 inches. 608 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Cover has wear and soiling. Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE FRSL (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle. In 1960 Keegan took up a lectureship in military history at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the body that trained officers for the British Army. He remained for 26 years, becoming a senior lecturer in military history during his tenure. Leaving the academy in 1986, Keegan joined the Daily Telegraph as a defence correspondent and stayed with the paper as defence editor until his death. He also wrote for the American conservative National Review Online. In 1998 he wrote and presented the BBC's Reith Lectures, entitling them War in our World. Derived from a Kirkus review: The 50th anniversary of WW II's onset has triggered a spate of books. Few, if any, will be superior to Keegan's. Keegan begins his panoramic narrative deep in the past, i.e., with a coherent account of the socioeconomic advances that permitted global conflicts in the 20th century. He then delivers insightful appreciations of the crucial battles and turning-point campaigns that enabled the allies to defeat the Axis powers. Covered as well are the strategic dilemmas that confronted Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, and Tojo as they deployed arms and men throughout the European and Pacific theaters, from the fall of 1939 through the late summer of 1945. Keegan offers acute commentary on the combatants' industrial capabilities, home-front morale, and espionage efforts, plus resistance movements in occupied countries. An informed and informative accounting of a horrific war that, the author suggests in an affecting epilogue, might just have saved the world from wider-ranging hostilities. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Blitzkrieg, Battle of Britain, Battle of the Atlantic, Crete, Operation Barbarossa, War Production, Stalingrad, Battle of Midway, Operation Overlord, Battle of Falaise, Strategic Bombing, Battle of the Ardennes, Battle of Kursk, Siege of Berlin, Amph
ISBN: 014011341X
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