John Keegan

"No estaba yo destinado a ser guerrero", se lamenta Keegan. Sin embargo la fascinación por las historias de los veteranos fue la que le llevó a convertirse en uno de los principales expertos mundiales en historia militar. Desde las primeras puntas de flecha hasta los misiles teledirigidos, desde el soldado anónimo al más grande de los generales, esta es la historia de la guerra en todas sus vertientes. La lectura ideal tanto para los admiradores...

Con su habitual perspicacia sobre el complicado mundo bélico y su gran capacidad de narrador, Keegan teje un relato lleno de ritmo sobre los medios que han empleado los grandes estrategas de la historia para identificar las debilidades, las intenciones o las tácticas de sus enemigos. En ocho capítulos que se leen como ocho mini-novelas, el autor analiza las claves de algunos de los enfrentamientos más famosos de todos los tiempos y el papel que...

It's 1959 in the town of Clearwater, there are no cell phones or laptops, Eisenhower is President and the country is at peace. Or is it? Three seemingly aimless teenagers, Wellesley Baker, wise guy Taylor Clark, the story's narrator Will Bradford, and Laddie Tilford, the deaf-mute who watches the town from his bike, see a different world. It's a summer vacation from high school that ends in two ugly deaths and a climactic trial.

At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people.  • "[A] magisterial narrative history, enriched by an authorial voice."—The Washington Post
Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought...

Tells the story of the Allied invasion of Normandy and shows how each of the armies mirrored its own nation's values.

Piper, the adopted teenage daughter of Kathryn and Tom Scanlon, refuses to believe that her mother's gruesome death was a freak accident-especially once another sordid story featuring a shared suspect comes to light.

Small-town man Cyrus Stapleton thinks he's done everything right-married early, fathered two precocious kids, and partnered in his Seattle law firm-but his wife, Jude, wants to break out. Cyrus is comfortable in the middle of the pack but she yearns for something more. Envisioning Cyrus as all the czars and dictators of the nineteenth century rolled into a three-piece suit and herself as the liberated visionary, Jude sheds her ring, then her married...

Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozens of skirmishes, and offers insight into the war's psychology, ideology, and economics while discussing the pivotal roles of leadership and geography.