The First World War | The First World War

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Author: John Keegan
First Published: 1999
Type of Work: History
Time of Work: 1914-1918
Setting: Europe, Africa, the North and South Atlantic oceans
Principal Characters: Paul von Hindenburg, Erich Ludendorff, Joseph Joffre, Ferdinand Foch, Sir Douglas Haig, Alexei Brusilov, John J. Pershing
Genres: Nonfiction, History
Subjects: Africa or Africans, Colonialism, Colonies or colonization, Europe or Europeans, 1910’s, Nationalism, World War I, Atlantic Ocean
Locales: Africa, Europe, Oceans

Among his contemporaries, John Keegan is one of the most distinguished authorities on military history. Keegan’s many books on warfare are certainly among the most accessible in this field, and each of them brings a clarity of exposition to even the most complicated of campaigns and battles. With The Face of Battle (1976) Keegan redefined the very concept and approach to military history, giving warfare a reality and emotional presence that was almost novelistic in its power. In subsequent books such as The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare (1990), A...

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