The Second World War

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Pimlico, 1997 - 514 pages
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"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."

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Avis d'utilisateur  - DinadansFriend - LibraryThing

A good introductory Book on the Global Catastrophe. Everything is included, the proportion of coverage is good for an English Language Book, and there is acknowledgement that the Soviet Army killed ... Consulter l'avis complet

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Avis d'utilisateur  - FFortuna - LibraryThing

A readable history from a British historian's perspective. I noticed it was more relaxed and less partisan (general vs. general, etc.) than American histories tend to be. It covers a lot of information in sufficient detail to get a grasp of the whole war. Consulter l'avis complet

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À propos de l'auteur (1997)

John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraphand Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The First World War, A History of Warfare(awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, Intelligence in Warand, most recently, The Iraq War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999.

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