RIP Sir John Keegan

[wodin]

Sadly passed away. A great historian.

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

Hopefully he is with all those soldiers he wrote about and listening to even more first hand accounts.

[parusski]

Yikes, I hate to hear it. I enjoyed every book he wrote. RIP.

[Blacksheep]

Sorry to see him go. RIP.

[warspite1]

RIP - a truly great historian.

[decaro]

ORIGINAL: wodin

Sadly passed away. A great historian ...

More than just a historian, he was a "real time" military analyst.

When I was in-country during Desert Storm, I recall Keegan predicted that although Iraq held its own with Iran, it was still a "Third World" power that wouldn't last more than a few days against the modern US-led coaltion once the ground war began, despite all the claims to the contrary made by Time and the rest of the liberal press.

[ckammp]

Sad to hear, he was an excellent author and historian. RIP.

[mikkey]

R.I.P.

[Erik Rutins]

A great loss, RIP.