John Keegan

John Keegan

John Keegan was born in Clapham, London on May 15th, 1934 and passed away at the age of 78 on August 2nd, 2012.

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John Keegan Stats: The highest rated book by John Keegan on Book Notification is The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme, a Non-Fiction book. The second-highest rated book is Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda, a Non-Fiction book.

The most read book by John Keegan on Book Notification is The First World War, the 2nd novel in The World Wars series. The second most read book is The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme, a Non-Fiction book.

Below is a complete list of John Keegan books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of The World Wars Books in Publication Order

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Wars Of The 20th Century (With: Peter Young, Susanne Everett, Robin Sommer)
Wars Of The 20th Century (With: Peter Young, Susanne Everett, Robin Sommer)
1985

List of John Keegan Teen & Young Adult in Publication Order

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Waffen SS: The Asphalt Soldiers
1970
2
Guderian
1973
3
10
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
1976
4
Encyclopedia of World War II
1977
5
World Armies
1979
6
The Nature of War (With: Joseph Darracott)
The Nature of War (With: Joseph Darracott)
1981
7
Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 - Aug. 5, 1944
1982
8
Soldiers: A History Of Men In Battle (With: Richard Holmes)
1985
9
Zones of Conflict: An Atlas of Future Wars (With: Andrew Wheatcroft)
1986
10
8
The Mask of Command
1987
11
Biography of Siegfried Sassoon
1987
12
The Price of Admiralty
1989
13
Collins Atlas of World War II
1989
14
The Times Atlas of the Second World War
1989
15
World At War 1939-1945
1991
16
8
Churchill's Generals
1991
17
A History of Warfare (With: Linda Uustalu, Rein Turu)
A History of Warfare (With: Linda Uustalu, Rein Turu)
1993
18
Battle At Sea: From Man-of-War to Submarine
1993
19
The Battle for History: Re-fighting World War II
1995
20
6
Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
1996
21
Selected Works
1997
22
War and Our World
1998
23
The Book of War: 25 Centuries of Great War Writing
1999
24
World War II: A Visual Encyclopedia
2000
25
An Illustrated History of the First World War
2001
26
10
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
2003
27
The Iraq War: The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath
2003
28
The American Civil War: A Military History
2009
29
Peace Corps Years in an African Village: 1977-1979 (With: Kathleen Morris)
2012
30
Legends and Poems Now First Collected
2015

List of Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Battle Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Kursk: The Clash Of Armour (By: Geoffrey Jukes)
Kursk: The Clash Of Armour (By: Geoffrey Jukes)
1969
2
Tarawa: A Legend is Born (By: David Mason, Barrie Pitt, Henry I. Shaw Jr.)
Tarawa: A Legend is Born (By: David Mason, Barrie Pitt, Henry I. Shaw Jr.)
1969
3
6
Pearl Harbor (By: A.J. Barker)
1969
4
Midway: The Turning Point (By: A.J. Barker)
1970
5
Anzio: The Bid for Rome (By: Christopher Hibbert)
1970
6
The Defense of Moscow (By: Geoffrey Jukes)
The Defense of Moscow (By: Geoffrey Jukes)
1970
7
6
Leyte Gulf: Armada In The Pacific (By: Donald Macintyre)
1970
8
Bir Hacheim: Desert Citadel (By: Richard Holmes)
Bir Hacheim: Desert Citadel (By: Richard Holmes)
1971
9
Battle of the Ruhr Pocket (By: Charles Whiting)
1971
10
Ike's Last Battle: The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket April 1945 (By: Charles Whiting)
1971
11
Vimy Ridge: 1914-18 (By: Kenneth John Macksey)
1972
12
Stalingrad: The Turning Point (By: Geoffrey Jukes)
Stalingrad: The Turning Point (By: Geoffrey Jukes)
1972
13
Dien Bien Phu
1974
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List of Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Campaign Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Breakout Drive to the Seine ( By: David Mason)
Breakout Drive to the Seine ( By: David Mason)
1969
2
France: Summer 1940 (By: John Williams)
France: Summer 1940 (By: John Williams)
1970
3
Pacific Onslaught: 7th Dec. 1941/7th Feb. 1943 (By: Paul Kennedy)
1972
4
Barbarossa: Invasion of Russia 1941
1973
5
Bloody Ulster (By: A.J. Barker)
1973
6
Pacific Victory (By: Paul Kennedy)
1973
7
Six Day War (By: A.J. Barker)
1974
8
The Yom Kippur War (By: A.J. Barker)
1974
9
Opening Moves: August 1914
1975
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List of Penguin Lives Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally)
1960
2
Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence)
Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence)
1999
3
Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay)
Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay)
1999
4
Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White)
1999
5
Crazy Horse (By: Larry McMurtry)
1999
6
Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills)
1999
7
James Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien)
1999
8
Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley)
2000
9
Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson)
Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson)
2000
10
Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss)
Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss)
2000
11
Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick)
Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick)
2000
12
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland)
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland)
2000
13
Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis)
Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis)
2001
14
Jane Austen: A Life (By: Carol Shields)
2001
15
Buddha (By: Karen Armstrong)
2001
16
Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray)
Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray)
2001
17
Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum)
Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum)
2001
18
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady)
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady)
2001
19
Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini)
2002
20
Winston Churchill: A Life
2002
21
Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill)
2002
22
Charles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley)
2002
23
Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason)
2002
24
Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison)
2003
25
Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.)
Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.)
2003
26
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable)
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable)
2004
27
George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker)
2004
28
Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson)
2006
29
Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro)
2007
30
Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon)
Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon)
2008
31
Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty)
Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty)
2008
32
Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin)
Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin)
2011
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List of Pimlico Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
History Of Germany Since 1789 (By: Golo Mann, Marian Jackson)
History Of Germany Since 1789 (By: Golo Mann, Marian Jackson)
1958
2
The Florentine Renaissance (By: Vincent Cronin)
The Florentine Renaissance (By: Vincent Cronin)
1967
3
The Romans and Their Gods (By: Robert Maxwell Ogilvie)
The Romans and Their Gods (By: Robert Maxwell Ogilvie)
1969
4
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom Paperback N. I. K., Cohn, Nik COHN (By: Nik Cohn)
1969
5
Virginia Woolf: A Biography (By: Quentin Bell)
Virginia Woolf: A Biography (By: Quentin Bell)
1971
6
Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers (By: Harold Evans, Gillan Crawford)
Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers (By: Harold Evans, Gillan Crawford)
1972
7
The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939-1945 (By: J.C. Masterman)
1972
8
Rome '44: The Battle for the Eternal City (By: Raleigh Trevelyan)
1981
9
Archaeology & Language (By: Colin Renfrew)
Archaeology & Language (By: Colin Renfrew)
1987
10
Warpaths: Travels of a Military Historian in North America
1995
11
Jonathan Swift (By: Victoria Glendinning)
Jonathan Swift (By: Victoria Glendinning)
1998
12
Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis (By: Paul O'Keeffe)
2000
13
In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition, and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII (By: Derek Wilson)
2001
14
Outlaws and Highwaymen (By: Gillian Spraggs)
Outlaws and Highwaymen (By: Gillian Spraggs)
2001
15
Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (By: Susie Harries)
Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (By: Susie Harries)
2002
16
Reading Clausewitz (By: Beatrice Heuser)
Reading Clausewitz (By: Beatrice Heuser)
2002
17
The People's Music ( By: Ian Macdonald)
The People's Music ( By: Ian Macdonald)
2003
18
All the King's Women: Love, Sex and Politics in the Life of Charles II (By: Derek Wilson)
2003
19
Ragged Glories (By: Barney Hoskyns)
2003
20
George Crabbe: An English Life 1754-1832 (By: Neil Powell)
2004
21
A World by Itself: A History of the British Isles (By: J.C.D. Clark)
2007
22
Cuttings: A Year in the Garden with Christopher Lloyd (By: Jonathan Buckley, Christopher Lloyd, Stephen Anderton)
Cuttings: A Year in the Garden with Christopher Lloyd (By: Jonathan Buckley, Christopher Lloyd, Stephen Anderton)
2007
23
Rezso Kasztner: The Daring Rescue of Hungarian Jews: A Survivor's Account (By: Ladislaus Löb)
2008
24
Humanity: the Recent Moral History (By: Jonathan Glover)
2015
25
The Story of Britain: A History of the Great Ages: From the Romans to the Present (By: Roy Strong)
2019
26
The Harvest of Sorrow:: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (By: Robert Conquest)
2022
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List of Smithsonian History of Warfare Books in Publication Order

A collection of works that explain different wars and military tactics in simple terms.

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
War in the Air 1914-45 (By: Williamson Murray)
War in the Air 1914-45 (By: Williamson Murray)
1999
2
The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century (By: Brian Holden Reid)
1999
3
Warfare in the Eighteenth Century (By: Jeremy Black)
1999
4
The Second World War in Europe (By: Charles Messenger)
The Second World War in Europe (By: Charles Messenger)
1999
5
The Second World War in the East (By: H.P. Willmott)
2000
6
The Art Of War: War And Military Thought (By: Martin van Creveld)
2000
7
War at Sea in the Age of Sail (By: Andrew D. Lambert)
War at Sea in the Age of Sail (By: Andrew D. Lambert)
2000
8
War at Sea in the Ironclad Age (By: Richard Hill)
2000
9
History of Warfare: The Renaissance at War (With: Thomas F. Arnold)
2001
10
Wars of National Liberation (By: Daniel Moran)
Wars of National Liberation (By: Daniel Moran)
2001
11
The Wars Of The Ancient Greeks (By: Victor Davis Hanson)
2002
12
Roman Warfare (By: Adrian Goldsworthy)
2005
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List of Who's Who Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Who's Who in the Old Testament: together with the Apocrypha (By: Joan Comay)
1971
2
Who's Who in Shakespeare (By: Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson)
Who's Who in Shakespeare (By: Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson)
1973
3
Who's Who in Classical Mythology ( By: Michael Grant)
1973
4
Who's Who in Military History: From 1453 to the Present Day (With: Andrew Wheatcroft)
1976
5
Who's Who in World War II
1978
6
Who's Who In Modern History 1860 1980 (By: Alan Warwick Palmer)
1981
7
Who's Who in Nazi Germany (By: Robert S. Wistrich)
Who's Who in Nazi Germany (By: Robert S. Wistrich)
1984
8
Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology ) (By: Alan Kendall, Edgerton Skyes, Egerton Sykes)
Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology ) (By: Alan Kendall, Edgerton Skyes, Egerton Sykes)
1993
9
Who's Who in Jewish History: After the period of the Old Testament (By: Joan Comay)
1995
10
Who's Who in Christianity (By: Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok)
Who's Who in Christianity (By: Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok)
1997
11
Who's Who in Dickens (By: Donald Hawes)
Who's Who in Dickens (By: Donald Hawes)
1997
12
Who's Who in Europe 1450-1750 ) (By: Henry Kamen)
1999
13
Who's Who in Ancient Egypt (By: Michael Rice)
Who's Who in Ancient Egypt (By: Michael Rice)
1999
14
Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre (By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe)
Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre (By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe)
2000
15
Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry (By: Mark Willhardt, Andrew Motion Poet Laureate, Alan Parker)
Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry (By: Mark Willhardt, Andrew Motion Poet Laureate, Alan Parker)
2000
16
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century (By: Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon)
2000
17
Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing (By: Tracy J. Prince, Jane Eldridge Miller)
Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing (By: Tracy J. Prince, Jane Eldridge Miller)
2001
18
Who's Who in the Roman World (By: John Hazel)
2001
19
Who's Who in Twentieth Century Warfare ) (By: Spencer C. Tucker)
2001
20
Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing (By: Gabriele Griffin)
2002
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List of John Keegan Anthologies in Publication Order

John Keegan: Biography

John Keegan was born on May 15th, 1934. John passed away August 2nd, 2012 at 78 years old. John Keegan was born in Clapham, London.

John Keegan is probably best known for their Non-Fiction Books. There are currently 30 books available. The first was released in 1970 with the novel Waffen SS: The Asphalt Soldiers. The most recently released novel was Legends and Poems Now First Collected which was released in 2015.

John Keegan also wrote the Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Campaign series which has 9 books including Breakout Drive to the Seine and France: Summer 1940.

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John Keegan: F.A.Q

When was John Keegan Born?

John Keegan was born on May 15th, 1934.

When did John Keegan die?

John Keegan died on August 2nd, 2012 at 78 years old.

Where was John Keegan Born?

John Keegan was born in Clapham, London, .

What was the first book John Keegan wrote?

The first novel written by John Keegan was Waffen SS: The Asphalt Soldiers, published in 1970.

What was the most recent book John Keegan wrote?

Their most recently released work was Legends and Poems Now First Collected on October 31st, 2015.

How many books has John Keegan written?

John Keegan has written 43 books across 11 series.
  • 2 books in The World Wars Series
  • 1 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 1 Short Story Collections
  • 1 John Keegan Teen & Young Adult
  • 30 Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in the Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Battle Series
  • 2 books in the Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Campaign Series
  • 1 book in the Penguin Lives Series
  • 1 book in the Pimlico Series
  • 1 book in the Smithsonian History of Warfare Series
  • 2 books in the Who's Who Series

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