Activity Quote by John Keegan

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

— John Keegan

“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

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