The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

In 1993 he won the Duff Cooper Prize. Keegan's Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America which gave accounts of many of the wars fought on the soil of North America also contained opening and closing essays on his own personal relationship to America. Frank C.

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE FRSL (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was a British military historian lecturer writer and journalist. He was the author of many publiJohn Keegand works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land air maritime and intelligence warfare as well as the psychology of battle.