Intelligence In War
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407064321
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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Intelligence In War

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A fascinating and highly readable study of this most topical of subjects by the most distinguished contemporary writer of military history.

From the earliest times, commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. But how much effect, in the 'real time' of a battle or a campaign, can this knowledge have?

In this magisterial new study, the author of A History of Warfare goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about intelligence in war. Keegan's narrative sweep is enthralling, whether portraying the dilemmas of Nelson seeking Napoleon's fleet, Stonewall Jackson in the American Civil War, Bletchley as it seeks to crack Ultra during the Battle of the Atlantic, the realities of the secret war in the Falklands or the numerous intelligence issues in the contemporary fight against terrorism.
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407064321
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
Categories:

About the author

John Keegan

John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and 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 Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.

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Also by John Keegan

The Price Of Admiralty
The American Civil War
The Face Of Battle
A History Of Warfare
Six Armies In Normandy
Battle At Sea
The Iraq War
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Praise for Intelligence In War

Intelligence in War combines the lucid prose, perceptive judgements and narrative power that Keegan's readers have come to expect

Christopher Andrew, The Times

A fascinating book on a fascinating subject, written by a master of the craft

Raymond Carr, Spectator

Authoritative and stimulating

Daily Telegraph

This excellent and highly readable book is vintage Keegan

Alistair Horne, Literary Review

This stimulating and informed book...has no contemporary equal. Keegan has done it again

Daily Telegraph
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