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Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE FRSL (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle .
John Keegan BIOGRAPHY John Keegan was born in 1934. He is married to the biographer Susanne Keegan and they have four children. He was educated at King’s College (Taunton), Wimbledon College and Balliol College, Oxford, of which he is an Honorary Fellow. From 1960 until 1986 he taught military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
John Keegan was lecturing at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, recently and I had the good fortune to meet him. John Keegan, of course, is the British military historian, now author of about 20 books, some of the best known being The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, The Mask of Command, and A History of Warfare.
Jun 1, 2001 · Keegan knows too much about five millennia of war-making, from the first organized struggles in 3000 B.C. of Mesopotamian farmers to protect their crops from invaders, to the humanitarian impulses ...
Aug 9, 2012 · John Keegan did not emerge as the greatest living authority of military warfare by chance. As good generals do, he managed the circumstances of his life, both good and bad, with consummate skill ...
Aug 8, 2012 · Keegan spent his life studying war, but he never fought in one and described himself as more or less a pacifist. The British military historian, who died last week at age 78, chronicled the ...
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Abstract. John Keegan was born in 1934. He is married to the biographer Susanne Keegan and they have four children. He was educated at King’s College (Taunton), Wimbledon College and Balliol College, Oxford, of which he is an Honorary Fellow. From 1960 until 1986 he taught military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
