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The Face of Battle (Paperback)

By: John Keegan (Author)

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"'The Face of Battle' looks at three familiar battles and tries to find out for you what each was actually like, using as much contemporary material as possible and a large component of common sense."

"Keegan's now classic description of what it was like to be an ordinary soldier on the Agincourt, Waterloo, or Somme battlefields is harrowing, humane, profound."

Excerpt

WHAT battles have in common is human: The behaviour of men struggling to reconcile their instinct for self-preservation, their sense of honour and the achievement of some aim over which other men are ready to kill them. The study of battle is therefore always a study of fear and usually of courage; always of leadership, usually of obedience; always of compulsion, sometimes of insubordination; always of anxiety, sometimes of elation or catharsis; always of uncertainty and doubt, misinformation and misapprehension, usually also of faith and sometimes of vision; always of violence, sometimes also of cruelty, self-sacrifice, compassion; above all, it is always a study of solidarity and usually also of disintegration-for it is towards the disintegration of human groups that battle is directed.

Publisher's note

Although he has never fought in a war the author creates a realistic picture of the fears, pressures, and mechanics of fighting a battle, emphasizing three particular campaigns.

Annotation

This seminal work of military history explores the nature of battle through the eyes of the men and women most closely involved in the action. Historical examples and influential samples of war literature lend context to the narrative, which centers on three intense, bloody, and climactic conflicts: Agincourt, October 25th, 1415; Waterloo, June 18th, 1815; and the Somme, July 1st, 1916.

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