The Illustrated Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the SommeA splendid new edition of a modern classic, illustrated with paintings, prints, engravings, battle plans, and photographs, and featuring a new introduction by the author. Illustrated. |
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Page 11
... battlefield - had they eaten , had they slept , how far had they marched carrying what weight ? How long did they have to wait on the field before action swept them up ? What did they hear ? Noise is a shattering ingredient of the ...
... battlefield - had they eaten , had they slept , how far had they marched carrying what weight ? How long did they have to wait on the field before action swept them up ? What did they hear ? Noise is a shattering ingredient of the ...
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... battlefield , because it was then that he was most exposed to the enemy's blows , but if he could clear the killing zone without being shot in the back or sabred by a pursuing cavalryman he had a good chance of getting off unscathed ...
... battlefield , because it was then that he was most exposed to the enemy's blows , but if he could clear the killing zone without being shot in the back or sabred by a pursuing cavalryman he had a good chance of getting off unscathed ...
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... battlefield , to standards of consideration , compassion even , higher than those adopted by any others of which we have knowledge . The modern Western state accepts the responsibility not merely to protect the individual's life and ...
... battlefield , to standards of consideration , compassion even , higher than those adopted by any others of which we have knowledge . The modern Western state accepts the responsibility not merely to protect the individual's life and ...
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18th Hussars advance Agincourt American American Civil War approach archers armoured arms army artillery attack barrage battalions battery battle battlefield bayonet behaviour bombardment Brigade British army Caesar campaign casualties cavalry century certainly charge Christopher Duffy columns combat command comrades Corps Cuirassiers d'Erlon's danger dead death decision described division effect enemy English face Face of Battle fear field fighting fire flank force formation forward fought French cavalry Fusiliers German Gommecourt ground Guards gunners guns Hans Delbrück Haye Sainte heavy historians horses Hougoumont human Hussars important individual infantrymen inflicted killed King's German Legion La Haye Sainte leadership less machine-gun mass men-at-arms military history modern Napoleon no-man's-land officers perhaps position prisoners probably ranks rear regiments Rifles Royal Russians Second World Second World War sergeant shells shot soldiers Somme sort square staff stand suffered surrender sword tanks Thucydides troops warfare Waterloo weapons Wellington Western Front wounded yards