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Face of Battle  
Author: John Keegan
ISBN: 0140048979
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Face of Battle

FROM OUR EDITORS

Departing from the conventions of military writing, Keegan ranges across history and through an awesome body of war literature to examine from the perspective of the common soldier three famous battles waged 500 years apart--Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. B&W illus.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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 of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme.

     



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