Face of Battle, The (Historical Reference Books (Barnes & Noble Books))

John Keegen

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Barnes & Noble Books, 1999

0880290838 / 9780880290838

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Barnes & Noble Books Historical Reference Books (Barnes & Noble Books) Face of Battle, The (NM) Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble Books Product Line: Historical Reference Books (Barnes & Noble Books) Type: Hardcover Code: 0-88029-083-8 Copyright Date: 1986 Author: John Keegen Page Count: 356 Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is NM. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description: In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tend to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it - his fears, his wounds and their treatment, the mechanics of being taken prisoner, the nature of leadership at the most junior level, the role of compulsion in getting men to stand their ground, the intrusions of cruelty and compassion, the very din and blood. Although he ranges over centuries to the present for examples, and through an awesome body of war literature in his critique of traditional military history, the author devotes almost two-thirds of the book to three battles fought about a hundred miles and five hundred years apart. In a style never histrionic, but intense, lucid, and dramatic, he makes us reflect on whether it was more terrifying to stand under the cloud of arrows at Agincourt, face the leveled muskets of Waterloo, or plod on into the rain of steel at the Somme. Set battles, with their unities of time and place, may be a thing of the past, but this anatomy of what they were for the men who fought them is an unforgettable mirror held up to human nature.…

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Dati bibliografici

Titolo
Face of Battle, The (Historical Reference Books (Barnes & Noble Books))
Autore
John Keegen
Editore
Barnes & Noble Books
Anno di pubblicazione
1999
Condizione
As New
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0880290838
ISBN 13
9780880290838

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