John Keegan
Birth date: May 15, 1934
Died: August 02, 2012
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(Original Review, 2002-06-10)There is easy rubbish and difficult trash. Of course, a lot of books with high literary merit will be more demanding for/ of the reader than, say, neckbiters, which are all fashioned by formula. But equalling the ease of a read with literary worthlessness would fail to a...
Winston Churchill biographies come in all shapes and sizes, from the massive to the svelte. John Keegan's contribution to the genre is definitely on the latter end of that spectrum; his book, a volume in the Penguin Lives series, covers Churchill's nine decades in less than 200 pages. To achieve thi...
It's all true about melodrama and an impossible number of improbable coincidences. But there's one redeeming feature: this book is quite well-written as regards language, unlike most of the ordinary light reading.
bookshelves: currently-reading, spring-2015, film-only, published-1948, under-100-ratings, long-weekend, nobel-laureate, history, epic-proportions, autobiography-memoir, military-manoeuvres, politics Recommended for: Laura, Wanda et al Read from March 06 to 28, 2015 Description: The story of Br...
John Keegan probably wants to repudiate this book, written in 2004, and filled with a muscular and enthusiastic defense of the Iraq War. keegan stops just short of calling the French cheese-eating surrender monkeys and he chastises the BBC for its nervousness about invasion. All in all, we have a ne...
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