John Keegan
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Con su habitual perspicacia sobre el complicado mundo bélico y su gran capacidad de narrador, Keegan teje un relato lleno de ritmo sobre los medios que han empleado los grandes estrategas de la historia para identificar las debilidades, las intenciones o las tácticas de sus enemigos.
En ocho capítulos que se leen como ocho mini-novelas, el autor analiza las claves de algunos de los enfrentamientos más famosos de todos los tiempos y el papel que...
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Magistral historia de la guerra moderna, esta obra viene a cubrir el vacío que existe en la bibliografía en español sobre la Guerra de Secesión americana. Una perspectiva internacional, desde la visión imparcial de un historiador extranjero.
Para un historiador militar, incluso si se trata de uno de los más prestigiosos del mundo, como sir John Keegan, no resulta fácil decir algo nuevo sobre la Guerra de Secesión, la guerra civil estadounidense....
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"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...
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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,...
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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.
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Publicado originalmente en 1976 y actualizado en 2004, este es el libro que consagró a John Keegan como el mejor historiador militar de su generación.
Un análisis de tres batallas emblemáticas del arte de la guerra: Agincourt, Waterloo y el Somme, contadas desde el punto de vista del soldado que lucha en primera línea. Es una mirada a la experiencia directa de las personas "en el punto de máximo peligro", examinando las condiciones físicas...
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The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the end of the cold war in the twentieth century, Keegan shows how armed conflict has been a primary preoccupation throughout the history of civilization and how deeply rooted its practice has become in our cultures.
"Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living...
"Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living...
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In North America geography has shaped the course of military history as it has nowhere else in the world. Our vast interior spaces, huge mountain ranges, extensive river systems, and boundless prairies have determined each critical conflict for control of the continent. Guided by this central insight, the acclaimed military historian John Keegan takes us on a tour of every major fortification and scene of battle in North America, from the arrival...
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For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundred known...
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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...
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John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle — a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan...
13) Piper
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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.
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In burnished, driving prose, John Keegan chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, from D-Day to the liberation of Paris. At the same time, he furthers his exploration of the “role which warfare and its institutions play in social life” by showing how each of the six armies, while resembling one another in purpose and authority, is a mirror of its own nation's values. Each army is shown at successive stages of the invasion in a battle sequence...
16) Orphaned
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In the tradition of National Velvet, the 1944 film starring Mickey Rooney and a young horse-crazy girl Elizabeth Taylor, Keegan tells the story of Dean Hostler, the fender repair guy, who surprisingly wins the auction at the Longacres horse sale for a thoroughbred filly orphaned at birth for his son Ricky's 17th-birthday. When Dean is hours late for the family dinner party, however, Lorraine refuses to let him in. The Nashua trailer that was their...
17) A Good Divorce
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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...
19) The Iraq war
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In exclusive interviews with Secretary of Defense Donal Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks, John Keegan has gathered information about the war that adds immeasurably to our grasp of its causes, complications, costs, and consequences.