Product Description
The Face Of Battle
Author: John Keegan
Format: Paperback
A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
** the 50TH Anniversary Edition **
'The book which changed how military history was written' — Bernard Cornwell
'Keegan shows us the true nature of war - it was never a chess game calmly between two masters, it was always bloody chaos' — Antony Beevor
This is military history at its best - from the battlefield. Powerful and gripping, The Face of Battle is an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at the point of maximum danger.
It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away.
In this stunningly vivid reassessment of three key battles, leading military historian John Keegan conveys their reality for the participants, whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the levelled muskets of Waterloo or the steel rain of the Somme.
'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' — 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' — Sunday Times
About the Author
John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.
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