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The Face of Battle is military history 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, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions. John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. Book jacket.

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• Acknowledgments(p. 11)
• Chapter 1 Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things(p. 13)
• A Little Learning(p. 13)
• The Usefulness of Military History(p. 20)
• The Deficiencies of Military History(p. 25)
• The 'Battle Piece'(p. 35)
• 'Killing No Murder?'(p. 45)
• The History of Military History(p. 53)
• The Narrative Tradition(p. 61)
• Verdict or Truth?'(p. 72)
• Chapter 2 Agincourt, 25 October 1415(p. 78)
• The Campaign(p. 78)
• The Battle(p. 86)
• Archers versus Infantry and Cavalry(p. 92)
• Cavalry versus Infantry(p. 94)
• Infantry versus Infantry(p. 97)
• The Killing of the Prisoners(p. 108)
• The Wounded(p. 112)
• The Will to Combat(p. 114)
• Chapter 3 Waterloo, 18 June 1815(p. 117)
• The Campaign(p. 121)
• The Personal Angle of Vision(p. 128)
• The Physical Circumstances of Battle(p. 134)
• Categories of Combat(p. 144)
• Single Combat(p. 145)
• Cavalry versus Cavalry(p. 147)
• Cavalry versus Artillery(p. 151)
• Cavalry versus Infantry(p. 154)
• Artillery versus Infantry(p. 160)
• Infantry versus Infantry(p. 162)
• Disintegration(p. 195)
• Aftermath(p. 197)
• The Wounded(p. 200)
• Chapter 4 The Somme, 1 July 1916(p. 207)
• The Battlefield(p. 207)
• The Plan(p. 213)
• The Preparations(p. 216)
• The Army(p. 219)
• The Tactics(p. 229)
• The Bombardment(p. 231)
• The Final Preliminaries(p. 241)
• The Battle(p. 246)
• Infantry versus Machine-Gunners(p. 247)
• Infantry versus Infantry(p. 251)
• The View from across No-Man's-land(p. 259)
• The Wounded(p. 268)
• The Will to Combat(p. 274)
• Commemoration(p. 285)
• Chapter 5 The Future of Battle(p. 290)
• The Moving Battlefield(p. 290)
• The Nature of Battle(p. 301)
• The Trend of Battle(p. 303)
• The Inhuman Face of War(p. 320)
• The Abolition of Battle(p. 331)
• Bibliography(p. 345)
• Index(p. 351)

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John Keegan, May 15, 1934 - August 2, 2012 John Keegan was born in London, England on May 15, 1934. He received a degree in history from Balliol College, Oxford in 1953. After graduation, he went to the United States on a grant to study the Civil War. When he returned to London, he wrote political reports for the United States Embassy and in 1960 was appointed as a lecturer at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, England, a post he held for 25 years. During this time he also held visiting professorships at Princeton University and Vassar College. In 1997, he began working for the Daily Telegraph as a defense correspondent and then military affairs editor. He also contributed to the American website National Review Online.

During his lifetime, he wrote more than 20 books about military history, the majority of which focus on warfare from the 14th to the 21st centuries. His works included Barbarossa: Invasion of Russia, The Face of Battle, A History of Warfare, Who Was Who in World War II, The Second World War, The American Civil War, The Mask of Command, and The Iraq War. He was knighted in 2000. He died on August 2, 2012 at age of 78.

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