Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation. Its circumstances… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans.… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“It is one of the many graveyards which are the Great War's chief heritage. The chronicle of its battles provides the dreariest literature in… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they? — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the ‘war to end wars’ as it had come to be called at… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
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