John Keegan

Profile: Full name: John Keegan (Sir John Keegan OBE) Area of interest: Defence, Military History Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph Email: Personal website: Website: Blog: Representation: Networks:

Biography: About: Education: King's College, Taunton; Wimbledon College; Balliol College, Oxford Career: joined The Daily Telegraph as a Defence Correspondent, 1986, becoming Defence Editor Military Historian: Sandhurst Royal Military Academy - twenty six years Visiting professorships: Princeton University, Vassar College (Delmas Distinguished Professor of History) Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Society of Literature Current position/role: Defence Editor also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Military Historian Other activities: Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund, 1994/2000; Commissioner of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Daniel Snowman: interview, 2000 Brian Lamb: A history of Warfare interview, 1994 War memories: John Keegan's life and times - John Keegan, Britain's leading military historian, talks about a career devoted to the study of war, his own physical challenges and how his new book was nearly his last - 17th September 2009 Broadcast media: Wrote and presented BBC's Reith Lectures, War of the Worlds, 1998 Video: Controversy/Criticism: Criticised by some peers, including Christopher Bassford (see trashing Clausewitz), for his interpretation of the works of Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian officer and writer on military philosophy Awards/Honours: Made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Gulf War honours list, and knighted in the Millennium honours list Scoops: Other: Married to cultural historian Susanne Keegan

Books & Debate: Barbarossa: Invasion of Russia, 1941 (New York, 1971) ISBN 0-345-02111-8; The Face of Battle (London, 1976) ISBN 0-670-30432-8; Six Armies in Normandy (1982) ISBN 0-14-005293-3; The Mask of Command (London, 1987) ISBN 0-7126-6526-9; The Price of Admiralty (1988) ISBN 0-09-173771-0; Who Was Who In World War II (1978) ISBN 0-85368-182-1; The Second World War (Viking Press, 1990) ISBN 0-670-82359-7; A History of Warfare (London, 1993) ISBN 0-679-73082-6; The Battle for History: Refighting World War Two (Vintage), 1996) ISBN 0-679-76743-6; Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America (1997) ISBN 0-679-74664-1; War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998 (London: Pimlico, 1999) ISBN 0-375-70520-1; The Book of War (ed.) (Viking Press, 1999) ISBN 0-670-88804-4; The First World War (New York: Knopf, 1999) ISBN 0-375-40052-4; Winston Churchill (2002) ISBN 0-670-03079-1; Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda (2003) ISBN 0-375-40053-2 see Random Books Latest work: The Iraq War (2004) ISBN 0-09-180018-8 Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Daily Telegraph: Column name: John Keegan Remit/Info: Analysis of foreign policy / defence issues Section: Features or News Role: Defence editor Pen-name: Email: Website: Telegraph.co Commissioning editor: Day published: Varies Regularity: Irregular Column format: Average length:

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