Sir John Keegan - great military historian - goes west

[StangStung]

Not entirely aviation related, but I'm sure we've all read one of his books. If not, we should've.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/9447744/Sir-John-Keegan.html

[The Inspector]

HMM, I've got a tall pile of the old Ballantine 'little' books dealing with individual campaigns or subjects (in fact I'm rereading Swinsons 'The Raiders' about the LRDG right now) that I bought new in the late 60's/early 70's @ $1 each and Keegan was a contributing expert on most of them.

[TonyM]

HMM, I've got a tall pile of the old Ballantine 'little' books dealing with individual campaigns or subjects (in fact I'm rereading Swinsons 'The Raiders' about the LRDG right now) that I bought new in the late 60's/early 70's @ $1 each and Keegan was a contributing expert on most of them.

I love those old Ballentine's. I have a few dozen of them and I read them all. Keegan wrote the one treating Guiderian.

Great stuff.

A great historian. I also read his WWI books.

TonyM.

[John Dupre]

I own and have read many of his books. A true loss. He had a way of bringing out the issues of his stories in a captivating way. But one of my fondest memories was listening to him describe his first trip the US, maybe in the 1960s, he was amazed that trees grew like weeds everywhere and with litttle or no government management. Somehow that really stayed with me.

[Pat Carry]

I havent read any of his books but I have seen him interviewed on TV several times. He seemed to be a walking encyclopedia and a genuinely nice guy. Godspeed.