John keegen (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or limited writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Later Printing. In color pictorial jacket over matching pictorial boards, 8vo, 827pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Barnes & Noble Books Historical Reference Books (Barnes & Noble Books) Face of Battle, The (NM) Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble Books Product Line: Historical Reference Books (Barnes & Noble Books) Type: Hardcover Code: 0-88029-083-8 Copyright Date: 1986 Author: John Keegen Page Count: 356 Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is NM. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description: 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 tend 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 very din and blood. Although he ranges over centuries to the present for examples, and through an awesome body of war literature in his critique of traditional military history, the author devotes almost two-thirds of the book to three battles fought about a hundred miles and five hundred years apart. In a style never histrionic, but intense, lucid, and dramatic, he makes us reflect on whether it was more terrifying to stand under the cloud of arrows at Agincourt, face the leveled muskets of Waterloo, or plod on into the rain of steel at the Somme. Set battles, with their unities of time and place, may be a thing of the past, but this anatomy of what they were for the men who fought them is an unforgettable mirror held up to human nature.…

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine-. Fourth Printing. Includes the complete texts of What If? and What If? 2. No remainder marks. Pages [xvi, 827] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Dust jacket clean, crisp, colors bright, minor display indications. Illustrated case binding [same design as dust jacket]; decorated endpapers. Illustrated with B&W maps and art reproductions. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Various Artists (ilustrador).…