The book sets out to show what battles have really looked like. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 352 pages and is available in paperback format. I have modified my opinion of keegan as a historian somewhat though. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Without the mythmaking elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, john keegan has written what is. The face of battle a study of agincourt waterloo and the. Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians. Starting with agincourt, moving on to waterloo, and finally the somme, the author describes warfare as experienced by the warrior of the day. The application of the face of battle approach has caused newage historians like goldsworthy, just as keegan did in the face of battle, to declare traditional historians had it all wrong as regards military history, but they havent actually come up with a new method of analysis. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of ithis fears, his wounds and their treatment, the mechanics of being taken prisoner, the. Keegan was the author of numerous books including the face of battle, the mask of command, the price of admiralty, six armies in normandy, and the second world war, and was a fellow at the royal society of literature.
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And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles, john keegan. A study of agincourt, waterloo and the somme pdf epub book. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Visually agincourt is a preraphaelite, perhaps better a medici gallery print battle a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues. The face of war, eugene simons jones, 1951, history, 166 pages.
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