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The Face of Battle is a 1976 non-fiction book on military history by the English military historian John Keegan.It deals first with the structure of historical writing [clarification needed] about battles, the strengths and weaknesses of the "battle piece," and then with the structure of warfare in three time periods—medieval Europe, the Napoleonic Era, and World War I—by analyzing three ...
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan OBE FRSL (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle .
Keegan discusses early warfare, the proliferation of Bronze Age warfare and then Iron Age warfare (Greek hoplites and phalanxes, Roman legions and maniples).He also talks about the conquests of the "horse peoples", first under the Assyrians, then the Achaemenids, Parthians and Sassanids; then in the 7th century the Arabs conquer a lot of territory, followed by the Mongols under Genghis Khan ...
Pages in category "Books by John Keegan" ... The Face of Battle; H. A History of Warfare This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 21:04 (UTC) ...
Keegan, John (1986) [1976]. The Face Of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. Dorset Press. ISBN 978-0880290838. Marshall, John Douglas (1993). Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey of War and Honor. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0815602743. Marshall, SLA (1947).
Dixon's analysis of morale in the late Roman Army was well received [7] and influenced the development of the study of military psychology in history pioneered by John Keegan in The Face of Battle. Selected publications
However, the British military historian John Keegan records that his "judicial savagery" during the Battle of Caporetto took the form of the summary executions of individual stragglers rather than the formalized winnowing of entire detachments. [22]
John Keegan argues that the longbows' main influence on the battle at this point was injuries to horses: armoured only on the head, many horses would have become dangerously out of control when struck in the back or flank from the high-elevation, long-range shots used as the charge started. [74]