Keegan, a senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, speculates as to what soldiers present at such historic military engagements as Agincourt and Waterloo may have experienced. -Tom Clancy.
The best military historian of our generation.
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 at the Battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme.
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.
Master military historian John Keegan\'s groundbreaking analysis of combat and warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the point of maximum danger.
Keegan, a senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, speculates as to what soldiers present at such historic military engagements as Agincourt and Waterloo may have experienced
