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John Keegan

Born: 15-May-1934
Birthplace: London, England

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: England
Executive summary: The Face of Battle

Wife: Susanne (four children)

    High School: King’s College, Taunton
    High School: Wimbledon College
    University: Balliol College, Oxford University
    Professor: Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (1961-86)

    The London Daily Telegraph Defence Editor (1986-)
    Royal Historical Society Fellow
    Royal Society of Literature Fellow
    Officer of the British Empire 1991
    Knighthood 1999
    Irish Ancestry

Author of books:
Barbarossa: Invasion of Russia, 1941 (1971)
The Face of Battle (1976)
Who Was Who In World War II (1978)
Six Armies in Normandy (1981)
Warpaths (1985)
The Mask of Command (1987)
The Price of Admiralty (1988)
The Second World War (1989)
A History of Warfare (1993)
The Battle for History: Refighting World War Two (1996)
Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America (1997)
The First World War (1998)
War and Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998 (1999)
Winston Churchill (2002)
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda (2003)
The Iraq War (2004)


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