The Face of Battle
A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
John Keegan - Author
ISBN 9781440673993 | 368 pages | 27 Jan 1983 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP
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Military historian John Keegan’s groundbreaking analysis of combat and warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. “The best military historian of our generation.” –Tom Clancy
Acknowledgments Chapter I: Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things
A Little Learning Chapter 2: Agincourt, 25 October 1415
The Campaign Chapter 3: Waterloo, 18 June 1815
The Campaign Chapter 4: The Somme, 1 July 1916
The Battlefield Chapter 5: The Future of Battle
The Moving Battlefield
Bibliography
Index
"In this book, which is so creative, so original, one learns as much about the nature of man as of battle."
"This without any doubt is one of the half-dozen best books on warfare to appear in the English language since the end of the Second World War."
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