John Keegan
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan was an English military historian, lecturer, author, and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare, and the psychology of battle. He was a senior lecturer in military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and a fellow at Princeton University and a professor of history at Vassar College. He joined The Daily Telegraph as a Defence Correspondent and remained there as Defence Editor.
Awards
['Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)', 'Knight Bachelor', 'Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)', 'Duff Cooper Prize', 'Samuel Eliot Morison Prize']
Notable Works
['The Face of Battle', 'A History of Warfare', 'The Second World War', 'The First World War', 'Intelligence in War', 'The Mask of Command', 'Six Armies in Normandy']
