The Face of Battle
Subtitle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780670304325
Description: The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles, John Keegan vividly conveys their reality for the participants, whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the levelled muskets of Waterloo or the steel rain of the Somme.