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John Keegan

ジョン・キーン

Jon Kīn

別名: Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1934-05-15 (Clapham, London, England)
死没
2012-08-02 (Kilmington, Wiltshire, England) 78歳
国籍
British, English
言語
English
宗教
Unknown
居住地歴
Clapham, London → Somerset → Kilmington, Wiltshire

経歴

職業
military historian, lecturer, author, journalist
活動期間
1960年〜2012年
所属
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, The Daily Telegraph
所属団体
Royal Society of Literature

学歴

Balliol College, Oxford
History
期間: 1953-1957
卒業年: 1957
国: United Kingdom
Read history with emphasis on war theory
Wimbledon College
期間: 2年間
国: United Kingdom
King's College, Taunton
国: United Kingdom

受賞歴

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1991
主催: British Government
結果: 受賞
Knight Bachelor
2000
主催: British Government
結果: 受賞
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
1986
主催: Royal Society of Literature
結果: 選出
Duff Cooper Prize
1993
対象作品: A History of Warfare
結果: 受賞
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize
1996
主催: Society for Military History
結果: 生涯業績賞
Doctor of Letters (DLitt, Honorary)
2002
主催: University of Bath
結果: 授与

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Face of Battle

1976年 Military history

Explores the nature of combat from prehistory to the 21st century, focusing on battles like Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, emphasizing the psychology of battle.

psychology of battleface of battle

The Mask of Command

1987年 Military history

Analyzes the role and masks of command in great captains.

commandleadership

A History of Warfare

1993年 Military history

Outlines development of warfare, arguing war is cultural, rejecting Clausewitz.

cultural nature of warlogisticsfire

全著作

  • Waffen SS: The Asphalt Soldiers
  • Barbarossa: Invasion of Russia, 1941
  • Opening Moves: August 1914
  • Guderian
  • Rundstedt
  • Dien Bien Phu
  • The Face of Battle
  • Who Was Who in World War II
  • The Nature of War
  • Six Armies in Normandy
  • Zones of Conflict: An Atlas of Future Wars
  • Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle
  • The Mask of Command
  • The Price of Admiralty
  • The Illustrated Face of Battle
  • The Second World War
  • A History of Warfare
  • The Battle for History: Refighting World War Two
  • Warpaths
  • Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
  • War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998
  • The Book of War
  • The First World War
  • An Illustrated History of the First World War
  • Winston Churchill
  • Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
  • The Iraq War
  • Atlas of World War II
  • The American Civil War

作風・主題

文体
readable and originaldetailed battle descriptionscultural perspective
頻出モチーフ
psychology of battlecultural aspects of warmask of command

健康

  • orthopaedic tuberculosis
    13歳時
    Affected his gait, made him unfit for military service, interrupted education.

評価・遺産

One of the most prominent and widely read military historians of the late 20th century, known for viewing war as a cultural phenomenon.

豆知識

  • Father was an Irish World War I veteran.
  • Evacuated to Somerset during World War II.