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John Keegan
 
Date of birth: 1934
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: England
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" About a week after the disaster I was sitting opposite a well known British newspaper commentator who said, Well I s'pose after a bit it will all be the same again, won't it? and I looked at him with complete astonishment. I thought, I just cannot believe it. How on earth can you think that? "

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" Civilians find themselves in the direct line of fire for the first time in the warfare of civilized nations. There was the Hitler genocide policy against the Jews, various other nationalities. minorities who were on his black list. "

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" Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. "

John Keegan
" Every optimistic idea that one had suddenly flopped. "

John Keegan
" Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people. "

John Keegan
" Homosapiens have been about for 40,000 years. "

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" I am a military historian and I've never been to war, and there must be some explanations. The medical officer at the army recruiting center took one look at me and signed me off. I'm completely unfit for military service. "

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" I am getting rather lame. I'm going to be 60 this year. "

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" I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction. "

John Keegan
" I didn't get a proper education, but I did get a strange sort of view on life. "

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" I do despise the direction that university history writing has taken, in which enormous effort and years of work are given to writing books which really only interest a few hundred others. "

John Keegan
" I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. "

John Keegan
" I don't think it's so much the material achievements of Islam, which were considerable in their day, which is so important to them as the true belief that Islam is the only thing in this world. "

John Keegan
" I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. "

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" I have a great American readership. It's not the only reason I love the United States, but it's one of the reasons. "

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