The Face of Battle

"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."

"'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."

""The Face of Battle," by John Keegan."