The illustrated face of battle
Subtitle: a study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
By: John Keegan.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Battles; Military history
Description: *The Illustrated Face of Battle* is military history straight 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, breaking away from the stylized format of batttle descriptions, John Keegan has written the definitive model for three famous battles: Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. He succeeds, too, in conveying the reality for the participants, whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt or the steel rain of the Somme.

This magnificent illustrated edition contains a new introduction by the author and is superbly designed and produced. The illustrations include paintings, prints, engravings,, photographs, and battle plans. They have been carefully selected not just to illustrated the text but also to form a fascinating reappraisal of the visual images of battle showing how these have changed and been manipulated over the centuries.
Notes: 128,284

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-297).
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 7; title: Introduction
pagenum: 9; label: Chaper 1
title: Old, Unhappy, Far-Off Things
pagenum: 15; title: A Little Learning
pagenum: 17; title: The Usefulness of Military History
pagenum: 22; title: The Deficiencies of Military History
pagenum: 27; title: The 'Battle Piece'
pagenum: 35; title: 'Killing No Murder!'
pagenum: 42; title: The History of Military History
pagenum: 48; title: The Narrative Tradition
pagenum: 55; title: Verdict or Truth?
pagenum: 63; label: Chapter 2
title: Agincourt, 25 October 1415
pagenum: 67; title: The Campaign
pagenum: 69; title: The Battle
pagenum: 74; title: Archers versus Infantry and Cavalry
pagenum: 80; title: Cavalry versus Infantry
pagenum: 82; title: Infantry versus Infantry
pagenum: 84; title: The Killing of the Prisoners
pagenum: 93; title: The Wounded
pagenum: 97; title: The Will to Combat
pagenum: 98; label: Chapter 3
title: Waterloo, 18 June 1815
pagenum: 101; title: Waterloo, 18 June 1815
pagenum: 103; title: The Campaign
pagenum: 107; title: The Personal Angle of Vision
pagenum: 111; title: The Physical Circumstances of Battle
pagenum: 116; title: Categories of Combat
pagenum: 125; title: Single Combat
pagenum: 126; title: Calvary versus Calvary
pagenum: 128; title: Calvary versus Artillery
pagenum: 133; title: Calvary versus Infantry
pagenum: 135; title: Artillery versus Infantry
pagenum: 142; title: Infantry versus Infantry
pagenum: 144; title: Disintegration
pagenum: 168; title: Aftermath
pagenum: 171; title: The Wounded
pagenum: 173; label: Chapter 4
title: The Somme, 1 July 1916
pagenum: 179; title: The Battlefield
pagenum: 181; title: The Plan
pagenum: 187; title: The Preparations
pagenum: 190; title: The Army
pagenum: 192; title: The Tactics
pagenum: 204; title: The Bombardment
pagenum: 206; title: The Final Preliminaries
pagenum: 214; title: The Battle
pagenum: 217; title: Infantry versus Machine-gunners
pagenum: 218; title: Infantry versus Infantry
pagenum: 221; title: The View from across No-man's-land
pagenum: 228; title: The Wounded
pagenum: 235; title: The Will to Combat
pagenum: 240; title: Commemoration
pagenum: 248; label: Chapter 5
title: The Future of Battle
pagenum: 251; title: The Moving Battlefield
pagenum: 253; title: The Nature of Battle
pagenum: 262; title: The Trend of Battle
pagenum: 264; title: The Inhuman Face of War
pagenum: 277; title: The Abolition of Battle
pagenum: 285; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 295; title: Index
pagenum: 298; title: Picture Acknowledgements
pagenum: 304; title: Maps; title: Agincourt
pagenum: 91; title: Waterloo
pagenum: 120; title: The Somme
pagenum: 226