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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme by John Keegan is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme about?
The 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.
Who reads The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Keegan
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc.
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (4,622 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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