The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

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.