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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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294732071285,"sku":"9780712673488","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712673488_97e17968-c88f-486c-bfd9-b07a15911c01.jpg?v=1791212904"},{"product_id":"9780712666503","title":"Intelligence In War","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the earliest times, commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. 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Keegan's narrative sweep is enthralling, whether portraying the dilemmas of Nelson seeking Napoleon's fleet, Stonewall Jackson in the American Civil War, Bletchley as it seeks to crack Ultra during the Battle of the Atlantic, the realities of the secret war in the Falklands or the numerous intelligence issues in the contemporary fight against terrorism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296672985461,"sku":"9780712666503","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712666503_5adec023-ef66-4880-9202-b946f8c1e6ec.jpg?v=1786015077"},{"product_id":"9781847922984","title":"The First World War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2018 marks the centenary of the First World War – the war that created the modern world. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a continent at the height of its success descend into slaughter. It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - political hatred, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which continue to shape our world today: modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, and radical ideas about economics and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the end of the war, three great empires – the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman – had collapsed. But as Keegan expertly shows, the devastation extended over the entirety over Europe and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. Pertinent, authoritative and gripping, this panoramic account of WW1 is regarded as a world history classic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The best and most approachable introduction to the war’ \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Nobody describes a battle as Keegan does, vividly relating the unfolding events to the contours of the field of combat... This book is a kind of war memorial. 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Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero Wellington, the unheroic Ulysses S. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler - John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the political imperative of the age and place.  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