The Face of Battle
by John Keegan
Buy on AmazonJohn Keegan's The Face of Battle is perhaps the most important military history ever written, establishing a new way of embedding armies and warfare in broader historical currents.
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"John Keegan's The Face of Battle is perhaps the most important military history ever written, establishing a new way of embedding armies and warfare in broader historical currents."
By the Book: James M Mcpherson · nytimes.com
"'The Face of Battle,' by John Keegan, which was one of the first serious books of military history to take on the history of battle from a grunt's-eye view of things. The book was incredibly useful when I wrote 'Old Man's War,' and I come back to it whenever I start researching for a military-oriented work."
By the Book: John Scalzi · nytimes.com