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    <body><![CDATA[The classic examination of battlefield experience.  The obvious, logical, and instinctual thing to do in the face of mortal danger is to flee.  Why do men stand and fight in the face of death?  What compels them to act against all reason?<br/><br/>Keegan looks at three battles fought in close geog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52265558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By examining three different famous battles from three different eras -- Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme --  military historian Keegan explores the fascinating ways in which our brutality has remained constant, but our ability to exercise it has become magnified. The material and his undoubted mas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4483894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“But I have never been in a battle. And I grow increasingly convinced that I have very little idea of what a battle can be like.”<br/><br/>Thus ends the opening paragraph of Face of Battle, in which military historian John Keegan attempts to explore, as best one can absent the experience, what i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23768158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book to research what battle would be like in previous eras for the average soldier. This book certainly did that. I liked that the author quoted primary sources about the battle or from those who had been in the battles so the reader could better understand what those battles looked lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47069891">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fucking best most level headed breakdown of potential experiences in battle that is available. All should read it. The first part about the importance of military history may be too heady for those who don't read tons of it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you have the time to read only two books on the nature of war, then you read this one and Hanson's &quot;The wars of the ancient greeks&quot;.<br/><br/>Hanson covers the Greeks and, to a certain extent, those who learned from them, and that's enough until you reach the middle ages, where Keegan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27359098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best book of it's kind. Keegan proves why he is the master. It is detailed, researched and well written. I cannot recommend this book more highly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recommendation from Dr. Sid, who was also a fan of Team of Rivals. So far, fascinating -- a military history as if from an anthropologist's point of view. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   This book was recommended in the Atlantic Monthly in an interesting mini-section.  A professor drew up a list of &quot;male&quot; books that women should read and vice versa.  This one was for the ladies.  I suppose the intention would be to give women a perspective in what war is like from a sol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9961360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An instant classic that changed the writing of military history forever.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Keegan's &quot;A History of Warfare&quot; made me want to minor in military history.  It was readable.  The same, unfortunately, cannot be said for &quot;The Face of Battle&quot; which he wrote in the mid-1970s.  He either became a much better writer or snagged a much better editor sometime between ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51682865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting theoretical work into the actuality of warfare on the ground, Face of Battle examines Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme to discover the truth of battle in its almost Marxist particulars. The discovery = <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225591.Murphy_s_Law_Law_Series_Book_2_" title="Murphy's Law (Law Series, Book #2) by Lori Foster">Murphy's Law</a> and good defense defeat heroes every time.   <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2363131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't try this one unless you LOVE history.  My favorite read from War and Society class in college.  It is a close up look at a few of the major battles in history:  Agincourt 1415, Waterloo 1815, The Somme 1916 as well as discussion on the moral complications of war.  I thought it was a thoughtful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5888613">more...</a>]]></body>
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