by John Keegan · PIMLICO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780712650908
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«The Face of Battle» is John Keegan's military history essay, published by Pimlico in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Keegan approaches military history from the soldier's perspective and focuses on their experience when danger is extreme. He examines physical effort, the emotions of combat and why one resists fleeing. He reconsiders three battles, Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme, to show the reality of those engagements.
The subtitle of the work is «A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme». It was originally published in 1976.
A work for readers interested in military history and the human perspective of war.
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle.
