This 1976 military history book seeks to answer what can we know not just of battles themselves, but in the experience of fighting and participating in battles. To do this, John Keegan primarily looks at three historical battles that the English (and then the British) military engaged in: Agincourt (the Saint Crispins Day battle we know from Henry V in the Hundred Years War) in 1415, the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon’s famous defeat, and the battle of the Somme during WWI. He begins by addressing […]