Helpful Score: 1
Great book if you enjoy engrossing history lectures.
Keegan manages to focus both on the details of the individuals and the greater political theater in which they operated. Somewhat higher level views of battles. Just enough details about trench warfare, the appearance of mechanized cavalry and equipment of the average soldier.
Covers the global theater of operations and not just the better known eastern and western European fronts. Includes the action among the colonial states in Africa that are usually given short shrift. Great detail on the political and strategic elements behind the Gallipoli campaign, Jutland, and the modernization of naval forces in both Britain and Germany.
Not the best book to listen to while driving. I listened to it twice back-to-back while commuting to work. Absorbed maybe a third of it. Has great 're-readability' potential.
Keegan manages to focus both on the details of the individuals and the greater political theater in which they operated. Somewhat higher level views of battles. Just enough details about trench warfare, the appearance of mechanized cavalry and equipment of the average soldier.
Covers the global theater of operations and not just the better known eastern and western European fronts. Includes the action among the colonial states in Africa that are usually given short shrift. Great detail on the political and strategic elements behind the Gallipoli campaign, Jutland, and the modernization of naval forces in both Britain and Germany.
Not the best book to listen to while driving. I listened to it twice back-to-back while commuting to work. Absorbed maybe a third of it. Has great 're-readability' potential.
