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  • The Face Of Battle

    A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme

    by John Keegan ...
    The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away.In his scrupulous reassessment of three battles, John Keegan ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Six Armies in Normandy

    From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6th–August 25th, 1944

    by John Keegan ...
    Narrated by Fred Williams ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 31 min

    In burnished, driving prose, John Keegan chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, from D-day to the liberation of Paris. At the same time, he furthers his exploration of the "role which warfare and its institutions play in social life" by showing how each of the six armies, while resembling one another in purpose and authority, is a mirror of its own nation's values. Each army is shown at ... Read more

    $39.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mask Of Command

    A Study of Generalship

    by John Keegan ...
    The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero Wellington, the unheroic Ulysses S. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler - John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the political imperative of the age and place. He ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The First World War

    by John Keegan ...
    The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan2018 marks the centenary of the First World War – the war that created the modern world. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a continent at the height of its success descend into slaughter. It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - political hatred, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Book of War

    25 Centuries of Great War Writing

    by John Keegan ...
    Acclaimed military historian John Keegan’s anthology of war writing from 25 centuries of battleIn The Book of War, John Keegan marshals a formidable host of war writings to chronicle the evolution of Western warfare through the voice of the most eloquent participants—from Thucydides’ classic account of ancient Greek phalanx warfare to a blow-by-blow description of ground fighting against the Iraqi ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • The American Civil War

    by John Keegan ...
    The greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America’s most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war.In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the American Civil War. Illuminated by Keegan’s knowledge of military history he provides a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Intelligence In War

    by John Keegan ...
    From the earliest times, commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. But how much effect, in the 'real time' of a battle or a campaign, can this knowledge have?In this magisterial new study, the author of A History of Warfare goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about intelligence in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Battle For History

    Re-Fighting World War Two

    by John Keegan ...
    With the same erudition, discernment, and crisp prose that made his A History of Warfare an international bestseller, Keegan surveys the literature of World War II, identifying the works he finds most important and illuminating while examining the sometimes savage controversies raised by two generations of the war's historians. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Iraq War

    by John Keegan ...
    The Iraq War remains highly controversial, but in all the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction, the use and misuse of intelligence, it remains an awesome military and political event and a formidable exercise in American power aided by the British army. Throughout the war and beyond it, John Keegan's analysis proved more accurate than any other commentator's, and now he brings his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Winston Churchill

    A Life

    by John Keegan ...
    Series series Penguin Lives
    One of the greatest historians writing today gives us a defining portrait of the incomparable Winston ChurchillIn his landmark biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian John Keegan offers a very human portrait of one of the twentieth century's enduring symbols of heroic defiance. From Churchill's youth as a poor student to his leadership during World War II, Keegan reveals a man whose ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • CLEARWATER SUMMER

    by John Keegan ...
    It's 1959 in the town of Clearwater, there are no cell phones or laptops, Eisenhower is President and the country is at peace. Or is it? Three seemingly aimless teenagers, Wellesley Baker, wise guy Taylor Clark, the story's narrator Will Bradford, and Laddie Tilford, the deaf-mute who watches the town from his bike, see a different world. It's a summer vacation from high school that ends in two ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Great Cavalryman

    The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery Commander Eighth Army

    by Richard Mead ...
    Dick McCreery was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1915 and served on The Western Front, winning the MC and surviving wounds.In 1938 he joined the staff of 1st Division under Alexander before being given command of 2 Armored Brigade. He won the DSO for his leadership during the retreat to Dunkirk Man/June 1940.In North Africa McCreery was sacked by Auchinleck, with whom he had major ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus