The American Future: A History; National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings; The Power of Art; The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations); Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; and the History of Britain trilogy. He has written and presented forty television documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and The History Channel, including the Emmy-winning Power of Art, on subjects that range from John Donne to Tolstoy.
Back in 1999 Schama tagged his top ten history books for the Guardian. One title on the list:
The Face of Battle by John KeeganRead about another entry on the list.
A stunning, extraordinary, fantastic book. It has a wonderful opening. He attempts a different kind of military history and concentrates on three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. No book until this one had put you right in the middle of the action and asked questions like "Why didn't everybody run away?" It stopped old-style military history, with shaded triangles facing each other, in its tracks.
The Face of Battle is one of Stanley McChrystal's six favorite books. John Keegan is one of Max Hastings's five of the best historians of war.
--Marshal Zeringue
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