John Keegan

"No estaba yo destinado a ser guerrero", se lamenta Keegan. Sin embargo la fascinación por las historias de los veteranos fue la que le llevó a convertirse en uno de los principales expertos mundiales en historia militar. Desde las primeras puntas de flecha hasta los misiles teledirigidos, desde el soldado anónimo al más grande de los generales, esta es la historia de la guerra en todas sus vertientes. La lectura ideal tanto para los admiradores...

It's 1959 in the town of Clearwater, there are no cell phones or laptops, Eisenhower is President and the country is at peace. Or is it? Three seemingly aimless teenagers, Wellesley Baker, wise guy Taylor Clark, the story's narrator Will Bradford, and Laddie Tilford, the deaf-mute who watches the town from his bike, see a different world. It's a summer vacation from high school that ends in two ugly deaths and a climactic trial.

Desde los tiempos de Alejandro Magno, hay una pregunta que obsesiona al líder militar: ¿dónde he de estar en la batalla? ¿En primera línea? ¿Un poco hacia la retaguardia, para dirigir mejor a las tropas¿ ¿O mejor no pisar el frente, y controlar sobre el plano desde mi cuartel de campaña? En resumen: ¿cuál es el papel y el lugar del líder? ¿Es lo mismo líder que héroe? Keegan analiza las personalidades de cuatro generales históricos,...

In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it—his fears, his wounds and their treatment, the mechanics of being taken prisoner, the nature of leadership at the most junior level, the role...

Small-town man Cyrus Stapleton thinks he's done everything right-married early, fathered two precocious kids, and partnered in his Seattle law firm-but his wife, Jude, wants to break out. Cyrus is comfortable in the middle of the pack but she yearns for something more. Envisioning Cyrus as all the czars and dictators of the nineteenth century rolled into a three-piece suit and herself as the liberated visionary, Jude sheds her ring, then her married...

Piper, the adopted teenage daughter of Kathryn and Tom Scanlon, refuses to believe that her mother's gruesome death was a freak accident-especially once another sordid story featuring a shared suspect comes to light.

Examines a series of historical wartime events to delineate the strategies and outcomes of each while linking the function of their intelligence operations, refuting perceptions that intelligence superiority is a key to war success.

Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography.