The Face Of Battle by John Keegan - 1976

New York: The Viking Press, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Good. About the practical mechanics of battle in warfare and an examination of popupar myths about warfare by British military hiustorian, lecturer, writer , and journalist , Sir John Desmond Keegan, OBE, FRSL ( 1934 - 2012 ) .....About the nature of combat from the 14 th throughv to the 21 st cebturies, - land, air, marine , intelligence, psyschiological ...... Historical writing about, specifically, the nature of " The Battle " - its strengths, weakenesses ... Warfare in the Medieval Europe... The Napoleonic era....and in WW I. with clever and thorough studies of Agincourt in 1415, Waterloo in 1825, The Somme in 1916...With Five Chapters, ending with : " The future of Battle ( The Moving Battlefield / The Nature of Battle / The Trend of Battle / The Inhuman Face of Warfare / The Abolition of Battle ). Bibliography. Index. Black colored covers, extended reddish-0range binding, with silver and black colored lettering on spine ( 5 7/8 X 8 1/2 x 1 3/8 0 354pages. Book weighs 1 1/3 pounds.

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