And needless-to-say those effects were not trivial. John Keegan was only five years old when he first saw, through a child's eyes, the very real effects, both great and small, of war on his family and on his fellow countrymen. Given the modest circumstances of Keegan's upbringing, it is probably no surprise that his early childhood was uneventful but that all changed for him, as it did for almost everyone else in Europe, in 1939. Born John Desmond Patrick Keegan, on, in Clapham, England, the future historian and best-selling writer was the son of a schools inspector and a housewife. The arc of Keegan's life, considering his rather unremarkable background, was both interesting and unexpectedly rich. He was 78 years old at the time of his death. The widely-respected student of warfare and the psychology of the battlefield had, after years of poor health and the amputation of one of his legs, ultimately been forced to rely on a wheelchair in order to get around. Sir John Keegan, OBE, internationally famous as an historian, author, and lecturer on military affairs, died on 2 August 2012 at his home in Kilmington, England.
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