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Title: The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme

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The Face of Battle is military  history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at  the “point of maximum danger.” 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. […]

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Title: Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda

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In fiction, the spy is a glamorous figure whose secrets make or break peace, but, historically, has intelligence really been a vital step to military victories? In this breakthrough study, the preeminent war historian John Keegan goes to the heart of a series of important conflicts to develop a powerful argument about military intelligence. In […]

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Welcome to MilitaryReadingList! MilitaryReadingList is about Military Books.  We started this site in 2000, with the intent to make available the books on the various military service reading lists. Since that time, the means to find and read books on the recommended reading lists has become much easier. The increased popularity of digital books has […]

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