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The Face of Battle Paperback - 1983
by John Keegan
Keegan, a senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, speculates as to what soldiers present at such historic military engagements as Agincourt and Waterloo may have experienced.
Summary
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
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
First line
I have not been in a battle; not near one, nor heard one from afar, nor seen the aftermath.
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- Title The Face of Battle
- Author John Keegan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 364
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1983-01-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780140048971 / 0140048979
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Library of Congress subjects Battles, Military history
- Dewey Decimal Code 904.7
Media reviews
"The most brilliant evocation of military experience in our time"
C.P. Snow
"In this book, which is so creative, so original, one learns as much about the nature of man as of battle."
J.H. Plumb, The New York Times Book Review
"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."
Michael Howard, The Sunday Times
"A totally original and brilliant book"
The New York Review of Books
C.P. Snow
"In this book, which is so creative, so original, one learns as much about the nature of man as of battle."
J.H. Plumb, The New York Times Book Review
"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."
Michael Howard, The Sunday Times
"A totally original and brilliant book"
The New York Review of Books
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