The Face of Battle Lib/E (Audiobook)

from RandyStafford

My reactions to reading this book in 1993. This was a fine book written by an historian who has never seen the "face of battle" but wrote what I suspect was the first of a new breed of military history - a detailed account of the subjective experience of soldiers. Here he covers three batles: Agi...

from Jacks0n

This is an absolutely essential book for the military historian or anyone interested in history. Keegan destroys a lot of myths - the conception of cavalry supremacy, the effectiveness of WWI artillery, and so forth. Gives a good idea of what it was like to fight at Agincourt or the Somme, and us...

from ksmyth

Face of Battle is arguably the most important military history book ever written. Through it, Keegan established a new methodolgy for examining battle, and catapulted himself to the front rank of military historians. By focusing on the experience of what the soldier on the ground, Keegan helps us...

from dougwood57

John Keegan is one of our best writers of military history and The Face of Battle is simply Keegan at his very best. He attempts to explain what humans actually do under the stress of battle and why. The book contains keen insights and some surprises. For example, while running away may intuitive...

from SimaZhou

John Keegan's book is a wonderful written history on three specific battles but it is much deeper than that. Mr. Keegan challenges those of us who write military history to dig deeper and go farther to bring out the often overlooked perspective of the fighting individual. How did the weather affe...