I was impressed with Keegan's in depth review of the American Civil War. It was detailed, well organized, and pretty thorough. He pulls heavily from McPherson's works and at times this seems like a retelling of "Battle Cry of Freedom". However, it is hard to compare the two works (this one and...
Of all of the clichés of the information age, “knowledge is power” might be one of the biggest and most prevalent. Living in a world where we have daily access to more information than we can possibly process or comprehend, we’ve become conditioned to think that knowing more is in of itself a mea...
The book I read to research this post was The Iraq War by John Keegan which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. I did recently review another book on the Iraq War and I must admit this book is a little bit better. In Britain John is a very successful historical author mostly doing wa...
The image of the agent is strongly imprinted on the imagination of anyone who in childhood played the war game l’Attaque—a sinister civilian figure parting the grasses to spy on brightly uniformed soldiers honourably and conspicuously engaged in combat—and that image has been reinforced for over ...
That omission in the story of his life may help to explain much about his behaviour as he grew to manhood and afterwards. It had been his ambition to train as an officer at the Iraq Military Academy in Baghdad but he lacked the education even to attempt the entrance exam. He resented his exclusio...