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Kimberly Kagan - The Eye of Command - 9780472115211 - V9780472115211
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The Eye of Command

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Description for The Eye of Command Hardcover. Offers an approach to studying and narrating battles, based upon an analysis of the works of the Roman military authors Julius Caesar and Ammianus Marcellinus. The author explains the significance of a battle's major events, how they relate to one another, and how they lead to a battle's outcome. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: HBW; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.

Published in 1976, Sir John Keegan's The Face of Battle was a groundbreaking 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 widely employed in the narratives produced by reporters embedded with American combat troops in Iraq.

Challenging Keegan's seminal work, 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472115211
SKU
V9780472115211
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Kimberly Kagan
Kimberly Kagan was an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Military Academy between 2000 and 2005. Since then, she has served as a lecturer in International Affairs, History, and the Humanities at Yale University and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and at American University's Department of History. She received her ... Read more

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