Reply With QuoteRIP Mr Keegan. I have enjoyed many of your books and feel that they enlightened me.
John Keegan, Historian Who Put a Face on War, Dies at 78
John Keegan, an Englishman widely considered to be the pre-eminent military historian of his era and the author of more than 20 books, including the masterwork “The Face of Battle,” died Thursday at his home in Kilmington, England. He was 78.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/bo...8.html?_r=1&hp
RIP Mr Keegan. I have enjoyed many of your books and feel that they enlightened me.
Damn! Damned shame! Hard to believe I'll never read anything from him again
RiP a true historian.
That sucks, RIP
I have his bio of Churchill, great stuff.
Sh*t. He was a good historian, and a good writer.
Godspeed.
RIP I have a couple of his books.
May he +Rest In Peace +
Sympathy &Condolences to his Family & Friends.
RIP Mr Keegan. One of the best historians out there, great admiror of his works
- indeed - a great historian and a sad lossOriginally Posted by Pandemonium
One of the very best.
His "The Face of Battle" and "The Mask of Command" were amongst my favorites.
Rest in Peace.
photo of Mr. Keegan from 1999:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2012/08/03/arts/KEEGAN1-obit.html
rest in peace, he was a great historian and Englishman
Great name, great loss.
+RIP, Sir.
I'll go buy his book on WW2 as soon as my day is over.
Great writer...surely. Historian...hit and miss.
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