John Keegan



Profile:
Full name: John Keegan (Sir John Keegan OBE)

Area of interest: Defence, Military History

Journals: The Daily Telegraph

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Biography:
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: Defence Editor

Other posts: Military Historian

Other roles: Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund, 1994/2000; Commissioner of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Viewpoints/Insight: Daniel Snowman: interview, 2000; Brian Lamb: A history of Warfare interview, 1994

TV/Radio: Wrote and presented BBC's Reith Lectures, War of the Worlds, 1998

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

Books: 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

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

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Other: Married to cultural historian Susanne Keegan



The Daily Telegraph:
Column name: John Keegan

Column remit: Analysis of foreign policy / defence issues

Section: Features or News

Role: Defence editor

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Website: Telegraph.co

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Day published: Varies

Regularity: Irregular

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Articles:

 *  Another year of conflict ahead while hopes of peace seem as dim as ever - Iraq - 19th March 2007



Links:

 * Wikipedia bio