The Face of Battle

The Face of Battle, (ISBN 0-670-30432-8) is a 1976 non-fiction book on military history by the English military historian John Keegan, published by Viking Press. It deals with the structure of warfare in three time periods—medieval Europe, the Napoleonic Era, and World War I—by analyzing three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. All three of these battles involved British soldiers and occurred in approximately the same geographical area.... more

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John Keegan

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE (born 15 May 1934) is a British military historian, lecturer and journalist. He has published many works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime and intelligence warfare as well as the psychology of battle....
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