An unsurpassed account of the Allied invasion of France from D-Day to the liberation of Paris. As a military historian John Keegan has the qualities of the best commanders, broad strategic grasp combined with insight into the human fibre of the battlefield, and an eye to what the lessons portend.' Observer
John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, The Mask of Command, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999.
"An unsurpassed account of the Allied invasion of France from D-Day
to the liberation of Paris."
--"Observer"
"As well as being a rare military historian who can also write
gracefully, John Keegan has a distinguished capacity for peering
behind the conventional view of events."
--Alistair Horne, "Sunday Times"
"As a military historian John Keegan has the qualities of the best
commanders, broad strategic grasp combined with insight into the
human fibre of the battlefield, and an eye to what the lessons
portend."
--"Observer"
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