The Face of Battle
by John Keegan · John Keegan
Keegan's study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme from the ordinary soldier's viewpoint, reconstructing what wounds, weapons, terrain, and fear actually did to men in the line, and arguing that battle narratives written from the general's perspective distort what happened.
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