The Face of BattleThe 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. Book jacket. |
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... fields below St - Privat and began to make their way up the slopes in the face of the French fire ... The result was a massacre . The field officers on their horses were the first casualties . The men on foot struggled forward against ...
... fields below St - Privat and began to make their way up the slopes in the face of the French fire ... The result was a massacre . The field officers on their horses were the first casualties . The men on foot struggled forward against ...
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... field in the latter stages , since the heaps would have confined them within their own positions . Brief re- flection will , moreover , demonstrate that the ' heap higher than a man ' is a chronicler's exaggeration . Human bodies , even ...
... field in the latter stages , since the heaps would have confined them within their own positions . Brief re- flection will , moreover , demonstrate that the ' heap higher than a man ' is a chronicler's exaggeration . Human bodies , even ...
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... field under the weight of their weapons and kit . The English army at Agincourt was certainly very tired , and hungry , cold and wet into the bargain . So too were both armies on the morning of Waterloo . Both had been on the march the ...
... field under the weight of their weapons and kit . The English army at Agincourt was certainly very tired , and hungry , cold and wet into the bargain . So too were both armies on the morning of Waterloo . Both had been on the march the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Agincourt October 25th 1415 | 79 |
Agincourt October 25th 1415 | 83 |
Copyright | |
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