Penguin Books; Reprint edition

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

Author: John Keegan

Book Description:

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. […]