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John Keegan

ジョン・キーン

Jon Kīn

Aliases: Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1934-05-15 （Clapham, London, England）
Died
2012-08-02 （Kilmington, Wiltshire, England） age 78
Nationality
British, English
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Clapham, London → Somerset → Kilmington, Wiltshire

Career

Occupations
military historian, lecturer, author, journalist
Active Years
1960-2012
Affiliations
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, The Daily Telegraph
Memberships
Royal Society of Literature

Education

Balliol College, Oxford
History
Period: 1953-1957
Year of Graduation: 1957
Country: United Kingdom
Read history with emphasis on war theory
Wimbledon College
Period: 2年間
Country: United Kingdom
King's College, Taunton
Country: United Kingdom

Awards

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

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Face of Battle

1976 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 Military history

Analyzes the role and masks of command in great captains.

commandleadership

A History of Warfare

1993 Military history

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

cultural nature of warlogisticsfire

Bibliography

  • 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

Style & Themes

Literary Style
readable and originaldetailed battle descriptionscultural perspective
Recurring Motifs
psychology of battlecultural aspects of warmask of command

Health

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

Legacy

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

Trivia

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