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“Eloquent.… Mr. Keegan captures the anomalous, even surreal quality of the war.… He uses his narrative abilities … to bring to life such famous engagements as Gallipoli, Verdun and Passchendaele.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“Gripping.… Keegan remains a master.”
—The New Republic
“Undoubtedly the world’s most accessible and popular military historian.”
— Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Magisterial … quietly heart-rending.… Most impressively, it is a miracle of concision, compressing problems that have consumed entire books into two or three crystalline paragraphs.”
— The Weekly Standard
“[Keegan] peers closely at warfare’s nuts and bolts to render an epic tale.… Keegan’s ground-level approach makes us keenly aware of how battles are fought, won, and lost.”
—Fortune
“A masterpiece.”
— GQ
John Keegan was for many years senior lecturer in military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and has been a fellow at Princeton University and a professor of history at Vassar College. He is the author of thirteen previous books, including the acclaimed The Face of Battle and The Second World War . He lives in Wiltshire, England.