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The Face of Battle
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In this major and wholly original contribution to military history, John Keegan reverses the usual convention of writing about war in terms of generals and nations in conflict, which tends to leave the common soldier as cipher. Instead, he focuses on what a set battle is like for the man in the thick of it—his fears, his wounds and their treatment, the mechanics of being taken prisoner, the nature of leadership at the most junior level, the role of compulsion in getting men to stand their ground, the intrusions of cruelty and compassion, the din and blood.
Set battles, with their unities of time and place, may be a thing of the past, but this anatomy of what they were like for the men who fought them is an unforgettable mirror held up to human nature.
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- Gordon
- 15-11-2019
Conflicting between entertaining & information.
A dry reading or perhaps writing style , yet bursting with quotable information ,fascinating. I feel like I just sat through a long lecture at uni.
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- aidan
- 03-12-2016
Obtuse
Just smacked a bit of pretension and I'm not left very clear what his point was.
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