Published in 1976, Sir John Keegan's ""The Face of Battle"" was a
ground-breaking work in military history studies, providing
narrative techniques that served as a model for countless
subsequent scholarly and popular military histories. Keegan's
approach to understanding battles stressed the importance of small
unit actions and personal heroism, an approach exemplified in the
narratives produced by reporters embedded with American combat
troops in Iraq. Challenging Keegan's seminal work, Kimberly Kagan's
""The Eye of Command"" offers a new approach to studying and
narrating battles, based upon an analysis of the works of the Roman
military authors Julius Caesar and Ammianus Marcellinus. Kagan
argues that historians cannot explain a battle's outcome solely on
the basis of soldiers' accounts of small-unit actions. A
commander's view, however, helps explain the significance of a
battle's major events, how they relate to one another, and how they
lead to a battle's outcome. The ""eye of command"" approach also
answers fundamental questions about the way commanders perceive
battles as they fight them - questions modern military historians
have largely ignored.
General
Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2006 |
First published: |
2006 |
Authors: |
Kimberly Kagan
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
288 |
Edition: |
Annotated edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-03128-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-472-03128-7 |
Barcode: |
9780472031283 |
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