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| | 1. |  | The Second World War
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $14.96
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This is an excellent one volume telling of the Second World War, within its historical context, with a heavy emphasis on the strategic questions and decisions faced by the political and military high commands of the five major powers (Keegan doesn't consider Italy a major power). A long-time... more info
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| | 2. |  | The First World War
from Vintage
Price: $11.53
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which may be the point. Keegan is a very reliable historian. He takes a steady, thoughtful, thorough approach to the build up to the first world war and then leads his readers step by long step through the war. While readers will find little to argue with I will venture to guess that they will find... more info
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| | 4. |  | The Mask of Command
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $10.88
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The Mask of Command is a fun read with plenty of good ideas to go around but the casual reader needs to be very careful as Keegan sometimes gets things just plain wrong.
Take for example the essay on Grant, called "Unheroic Leadership". Analyzed as such because Grant subscribed to the idea of... more info
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| | 5. |  | A History of Warfare
from Vintage
Price: $11.53
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Keegan sets out on a bold crusade to discredit Carl von Clausewitz and fails - miserably. Two major problems:
1) Keegan is oblivious of the fact that Clausewitz's phrase "war is a contiunation of politics by other means" is the antithesis in a dialectical argument, whose thesis is the point... more info
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| | 7. |  | The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $9.00
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John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps is the prototype of the modern thriller novel, what he called a "shocker." In it, Buchan introduced Richard Hannay, the prototype of the resourceful, intelligent, and tenacious hero of the modern thriller. And while the story may not be as intricate or... more info
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| | 8. |  | Jasper Johns: Gray (Art Institute of Chicago)
from Art Institute of Chicago
Price: $40.95
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I hesitated before ordering this book. I already own 5 books about Jasper Johns and was thinking to myself that owning one more would not add much to my appreciation of this great artist. I was wrong. This book, the catalogue for an exhibition held at the Chicago Art Institute in 2007, is full of... more info
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