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About the Author

John Keegan is the Defence Editor of The Daily Telegraph and Britain’s foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1995, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, The Mask of Command, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History and The first World War. His most recent book, Intelligence in War, in 2003. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sand Hurst, he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of literature. He received the OBE in the First Gulf War honors list, and was knighted in the Millennium honors list.